Converting .DMS to amiga disks, what do I need?

[Robert17]

Hey all I'm trying to convert DMS files to a floppy on my amiga for squirrel scsi drivers, what files and utilities do I need? I'm using crossdos to transfer the files..

Thanks

Robert

[Thomas]

You need DMS. There are several versions around. Here is the one on Aminet: http://de.aminet.net/aminetbin/find?dms111

Bye,
Thomas

[Robert17]

what in earth is .RUN? I'm now transferring it, hope it works :-)

[KennyR]

A .RUN is an Amiga self-extracting LhA file. Just run it like an executable on an Amiga, and it'll extract itself, no other tools needed.

[bhoggett]

If you look in the util/arc directory on Aminet you'll find lots of DMS related utilities and applications.

At the most basic level, you would need dms111.run, and then you would get the command line template when you ran the DMS executable. Using this it's easy to write a .dms file to an Amiga floppy disk, though you may encounter difficulties if you don't have a hard drive.

[Robert17]

Problem, when I try to install it is says Error = 21 Track not MFM formatted...

[Thomas]

Try another floppy disk, this one is bad.

Bye,
Thomas

[Robert17]

my A1200 seems kinda quirky all of a sudden, could this be lack of power? I've the squirrel pcmcia, blizz 1230 and external fd running..?

[Robert17]

okay I've got the DMS on the A1200, only problem is now that for some reason none of my disk drives will format me a disk at all. I have the internal and 2 external drives I have tried, any ideas?!

[graffias79]

Not sure if this is relevant, but I've found that OS 3.x is kind of braindead when it comes to using the "Format" menu command in Workbench.  Try opening a shell and typing:

FORMAT DRIVE DF0: NAME "EMPTY" FFS NOICONS

and see if that works (of course DF0: and the name EMPTY can be changed to whatever you like)

-Jamie