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Power XL HD Disk Drive patch
« on: April 20, 2011, 12:12:51 PM »
For whatever reason, call it a moment of madness I purchased a HD Power XL drive.  I dont know why I bought it but I think it stems from the fact I was envious of Amiga 4000 owners having high density drives as standard
 
It works fine as a double density drive, but requires a patch to use HD disks.
 
Now I downloaded the dms file, but it says there are no files to extract.
 
My email address is techguy at internode.on.net and I can supply the dms file and would appreciate the help of getting these files onto my Amiga 1200 rack.
 
Thanks muchly!
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Re: Power XL HD Disk Drive patch
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 01:48:47 PM »
Quick note, you only need HighDensityPatch to write to HD disks. Reading works fine without it.

Have you tried writing the DMS directly back to disk? (http://aminet.net/package/util/arc/dms111)
 

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Re: Power XL HD Disk Drive patch
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 02:01:57 PM »
Quote from: Matt_H;632591
Quick note, you only need HighDensityPatch to write to HD disks. Reading works fine without it.
 
Have you tried writing the DMS directly back to disk? (http://aminet.net/package/util/arc/dms111)

I tried to use the os3.9 unarc gui and it says there are no files to extract.
 
I understand that I can read HD disks, but I dont have Amiga HD disks, so I'd like to format some PC ones so I can use them for the Amiga...well to at least prove the floppy drive works.
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Re: Power XL HD Disk Drive patch
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 02:56:55 PM »
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I tried to use the os3.9 unarc gui and it says there are no files to extract.
 


DMS is a compressed disk image file, not an archive. I don't think unarc supports it. You either need something a program that can mount it as a disk image or undms it to an actual floppy or RAD disk.
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