PC0: on WINUAE

[gizz72]

Greetings,

Is it possible to mount PC0: using the actual PC floppy so I can format it directly under WINUAE and not having to Alt-TAB it? err.. for convinience.

BTW, The lesser I use WIN!DOH!S the better. I'm using AF6 at work now. Always wanted a '040 unit anyway. 8-)

Thanks in advance for the advice.

Regards,

Gizz

[adz]

Err...from my knowledge, no. PC0: under uae is exactly what it is when using a real Amiga, a device driver that allows you to read IBM formatted disks in a Amiga FDD, and seeing as your DF0: is actually a "virtual drive" for reading adf files, I doubt it. You never know, someone else may have an idea though. Good luck :-)

[blobrana]

Yeah,
not possible with a standard set-up - though if you could rig up a zip drive through the IDE interface then it may be possible to do it directly....

Strangely enough I've always had a PC0 device mounted ...
not that i have ever used it.
but yeah it's possible, with the virtual floppy drive;
 just choose custom floppy and format the virtual floppy to create a `empty dos`  one.

But why?
Are you using a Hard-Disk file?
I JUST SAVE the file onto the real PC HD and i can decant that directly onto floppies later...

[seer]

I believe you can choose which Windows drives to load as standard in WinUAE. "Add PC drives at startup" or something like that.. I think drive a: is listed there as well.. Can't check it now tho.

[blobrana]

@seer
Hum,
looks like your right...Doh!, i thought it only worked with the IDE  interface...

Add a device , and add the path a:/, it does work...!

[seer]

Guess that's because you format the disk as FFS or OFS. Something the PC drive can't do.

You could try to format it in a CLI or shell and specify that you want to format it with the crossdossfilesystem. Maybe that works.

[Piru]

Guess that's because you format the disk as FFS or OFS. Something the PC drive can't do.

No, it's not because of that.

You could try to format it in a CLI or shell and specify that you want to format it with the crossdossfilesystem. Maybe that works.

No way.

A) You cannot specify crossdosfilesystem for format.
B) "Add PC drive A:\" doesn't make the drive available thru trackdisk.device or mfm.device. It makes it available similar to hard disk, that is filesystem bridge only. You can't format such drive.

Basically you need to use Windows side to format the floppy still. Also I doubt this A:\-mount handles disk changes well.

[seer]

@Piru,

Ok, that does make sense. :-) Thanks.