CompuServe Messages

Steven, yes I know about AREAD and AWRITE, and use them quite often. The idea here is, that a CD-ROM drive could be used by both systems. The Amiga system could read everything like .doc files etc. on a PC CD disk. But to run (IBM/MSDOS/Windows)-programs directly off a CD disk, it would be necessary to have direct access to the drive from the Bridgeboard. If you don't have that you would have to AREAD the program and all supporting files from the CD to some file in a bridgeboard drive, then load and run it from there. So you could use one external CD drive for running Amiga programs from Amiga CDs directly in the Amiga (like Fish disk programs) and MSDOS programs from MSDOS CDs directly using the Bridgeboard without transferring anything. The same would be true for using Syquest drives, though in this case JLINK files could be used to achieve the same, except that you cannot exchange data via the Syquest medium with other PCs, unless they are directly and exclusively written by the bridgeboard. (Similar is the case for backup tapes). In your old 2000 the two SCSI controllers did probably not share the same external devices, right? And I did not quite understand what you meant by <<an Amiga controller (cannot) run an scsi device on the PC side _except through the pseudo-drive_>>. Did you mean JLINK files? Thank you. Manfred <- flying from FRA via Autopilot (Amiga) 1.052