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[BGary335]

The problem is not with the floppy disk, or the floppy drive. I think its another one of those things where I'm just doing something wrong somewhere between the time I compress the adf file into an LHa archive on the PC to the time I try to adf2disk it onto floppy on the Amiga. In fact, everything is just fine until the adf2disk part, because its after that that I get the error and that nothing appears on the floppy.

[Piru]

@BGary335

In fact, everything is just fine until the adf2disk part, because its after that that I get the error and that nothing appears on the floppy.

Many games don't show anything on the disk or even show the disk as NDOS. These games require you boot the system from the floppy directly.

[BGary335]

Not sure what happened, but I just now turned my A500 on and put the disk in after Workbench loaded, and now the disk works just fine. Perhaps a restart is required after the adf2disk operation?

[Liber777]

I have 3.0 and 3.1 disks from my old A3000.  Will the CrossDos libraries run on WB 1.3 if I copy them to my A2500?

Thanks...
Stivan

[Liber777]

I have 3.0 and 3.1 disks from my old A3000.  Will the CrossDos libraries run on WB 1.3 if I copy them to my A2500?

Thanks...
Stivan

[BGary335]

I don't know for sure, but I don't think that will work.

[SamuraiCrow]

@Liber777

No.  CrossDos requires at least Kickstart 2 to work.

[Liber777]

SamuraiCrow,

Thank you.  I've managed to mount an Amiga SCSI drive to one of my PC's and I'm moving files via WinUAE.  What a godsend this thing is...!

Warmest,
Stivan

[BGary335]

Got another question: I'm currently working with some .adf files that have odd names, and adf2disk seems to have a difficult time with such files. For example, one file I'm working with has a title that looks like this (x=letters of the file name):XXXX - XXXXX XXXXXXXX-XXXX-X.adf. When I try to run adf2disk on these files, it gives me an error that says something about not having enough commands. I assume that because of all the dashes and spaces, adf2disk thinks these are commands, not the name of the file. Is there a way I can change the name of the file so that adf2disk will recognize it?

[Daedalus]

Dandy wrote:
Oh - one thing I'd like to mention:
Years ago I got myself "CrossDos 7 gold".
With this version there are no 8.3 filename restrictions any longer.
It supports DD disks (720k) as well as HD disks (1440k) and is able to read and write PC harddrives...

This is true, but you can only read 1.44MB PC floppies if you have a HD drive. No amount of software will read a 1.44 floppy in a standard A500 drive. Incidentally, the Fat95 filesystem is free, does the very same thing as CrossDOS 7, and is available on AmiNet:
http://aminet.net/search.php?query=fat95

[Daedalus]

BGary335 wrote:
Got another question: I'm currently working with some .adf files that have odd names, and adf2disk seems to have a difficult time with such files. For example, one file I'm working with has a title that looks like this (x=letters of the file name):XXXX - XXXXX XXXXXXXX-XXXX-X.adf. When I try to run adf2disk on these files, it gives me an error that says something about not having enough commands. I assume that because of all the dashes and spaces, adf2disk thinks these are commands, not the name of the file. Is there a way I can change the name of the file so that adf2disk will recognize it?

You should be able to rename it to anything at all and usethe new name to write it to floppy, so just rename it in Workbench to XXXXX.adf and use that instead. Alternatively, to get AmigaDOS to ignore the spaces in filenames you can put it in quotes, so use "XXXX - XXXXX XXXXXXXX-XXXX-X.adf" instead.

[Tomas]

SamuraiCrow wrote:
I've never used unace or WinAce so I'm not sure if I can help you with those, but if you want to LHa compress an ADF on the Windows command prompt you can download LHaNT and although you'll still have to type the commands, they are the same commands as the Amiga version uses.  Note: the linked file above is an LHa archive so you'll probably have to unpack it to PC0: on your Amiga.

I think the reason for using ace is because he wants to split the archive up as some adf images are bigger than 720k compressed. I dont think lha can do this?

The reason for unace not working, might be that he use a too new version.. I would try a older version that is closer to the age of unace.

[Tomas]

Got another question: I'm currently working with some .adf files that have odd names, and adf2disk seems to have a difficult time with such files. For example, one file I'm working with has a title that looks like this (x=letters of the file name):XXXX - XXXXX XXXXXXXX-XXXX-X.adf.

Just rename it.. You can even rename it on the amiga so no problems..

[Tomas]

Hmmm - if the disk is readable on the PC without probs, I'd assume that either the heads of your Amiga floppy drive need to be cleaned or they need a calibration. I have a weak remembrance that there was a tool for this - maybe on Aminet...

Do anyone have more info on this? I have a strong feeling that one of my a500 disk drives suffer from this problem. The problem is that this amiga has problems reading floppies that has been formatted in a different amiga while the ones formatted on this works just fine..

[BGary335]

Nevermind. Think I found the problem. :-D

[BGary335]

Another question:I have been using Winace to compress my adf files into lha archives. I've just about finished compressing all of my adf files, but there are a handful that Winace was not able to compress enough to fit them onto a 720k floppy. In fact, it did not compress them at all-they were 880kb before and 880kb after compression. Is there another program for the PC that might be able to compress these files into lha archives small enough so that they can fit on floppy?