#A570 Question
6 messages in this thread
I recently bought an A570 for my floppy based A500. This unit runs CDTV
titles fine, but When I try to run a Fish disk I get a Guru when I try
click on the first Icon (80000003). Am I tied to CDTV titles only?
Jim
Jim,
I run A570 together with A500+ since several months; everything works
fine, except some problems with boot priority of 3 devices: CD0, DF0, DF1.
Fish CDs usually have no operating system on them, so you have to load
workbench from floppy. But your problem sounds more like corrupted data.
Did the error occur when trying to run specific programs from CD or are
you not able to open the CDs directory?
Eberhard Spittler
(using AutoPilot)
Eberhard,
My problem is when I try to open the CD's directory. Do you think I've
caught a carp? I have a friend who has some of Fred's stuff, I might stop
by his house and get one of his disks.
When I boot with the 1.3 ROM it will not show the directory icon unless
I boot with the disk in the drive. If I boot with the 2.0 ROM, the
directory Icon will come up any whenever I put the disk in. Also, when I
use a Click-Dos Program I get a requester saying it can't find device o:,
although I asked for CD0:.
Jim
Jim,
I am not an expert neither on operating systems nor on CD file systems.
I work with 2.04 and 3.0 AmigaDOS.
The symptoms as you describe them look as if the CDs directory is somehow
corrupted (I apologize that I cannot be any more specific).
When you boot from the CD it should come up with a customized WB screen,
IF it has an operating system included. That should work, when all your
floppies are removed from their drives. Alternatively, you can can force
to boot from CD with the "early startup menu" (warm start and keep both
mouse buttons pressed until this menu appears).
If you boot from floppy, you should be able to open all directories on
the CD by double clicks, until you arrive at something executable. If you
get a GURU before, the disk is not OK.
Eberhard Spittler
(using AutoPilot)
JL >>When I try to run a Fish disk I get a Guru when I try click on the
first Icon (80000003). Am I tied to CDTV titles only?<<
I can't speak for the Fisk disk, but the A570 can read other CR-ROMs like
the AMINET CD.
Are you booting from the Fisk CD?
Ron.
Ron. – ("I'm not stupid, I'm not expendable, and I'm not going!"
– quote made by any low level RPG player.)