#Janus 2.0
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John,
Yes…by using AREAD or AWRITE to/from a Shared Hard Drive
(JLinked, MakeAB, or JANUS device)…you're trying to pass the data thru
the Amiga- MS-DOS interface (JANUS) both directions at once. That is a
tough job for MS-DOS to handle…thus the i/o errors.
Look at it this way…read from the MS-DOS side and pass it to the
Amiga side … Amiga side sees it goes to JH0: and immediately passes it
back to the MS-DOS side…thus MS-DOS is trying to do read/writes at the
same time and gets confused.
If you can use an intermediate device, such as first writting it to
an Amiga side floppy and when that's done, passing it back to JH0: via
COPY…the problems will go away.
Of cousre, if you try to pass it back (the copy to JH0:) while
you're trying to do something else on the MS-DOS side…the problems will
reappear…and probably more severely.
Don
I understand. However, isn't it strange that I can aread/awrite a file
from the PC hard disk to jh0: with no problem? Now, I would have thought
that would have been a problem, not the floppy!!
John
John,
No…it's not strange…the read/writes go to the same physical
device, and it too can only do one at a time…so it reports itself busy
momentairly. While from the floppy, it's a separate physical device so
just as the MS-DOS side is getting to do another read/write to the
floppy…it gets this other message to do a hard disk read/write and gets
confused.
At least that's the way I understand it.
Don