#SyQuest+GVP HELP!
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I have a question that I hope someone here can answer:
I recently picked up a SyQuest 5110C drive for my GVP-equipped A500.
My reason for getting the dual-format unit is cost savings in using 44-meg
cartridges… since some of the things I want stored off-line don't
justify buying a $200+, 88-meg cart when a <$100, 44-meg cart will do.
Imagine my surprise when I found that I couldn't use the 44-meg and
88-meg carts interchangeably! (^_^) If I put a 44-meg cart in after
boot-up, I'd get a 'Not a DOS Disk' error if I replaced it with an 88-meg
cart, and vice-versa.
The way I have things set up, a 44-meg cart is formatted as DH3: and an
88-meg cart is DH2:. I tried using the same names for both, to no avail.
Do I need a DiskChange-like program to allow the different sized
cartridges to work interchangeably? Is there something in the GVP device
drivers (the version I have is 4.13 of the gvpscsi.device)? Or am I just
plain out of luck?
Thanks in advance.
AmigaDOS "mounts" a device into the system and from then on it's in
there. Without hacking your system to death with software patches,
there is no way to change from 44MB to 88MB, or even 1-partition 44MB
to 2-partition 44MB without rebooting.
It's ALL controllers, since it is in AmigaDOS, not the device driver.
There may be some Public Domain "UnMount" programs here on CIS, but
I've never really trusted them… You could give them a try and see
if they work for you.
Gary-
>there is no way to change from 44MB to 88MB … without rebooting.
Geez, that's a pain. (^_^) I seem to have gotten around it by calling a
44MB cartridge DH3 and an 88MB cartridge DH2. What I can do now is:
whatever cartridge I didn't insert first, I do a MOUNT and a DIR on it,
and from then on it's available interchangeably with the other.
>It's ALL controllers, since it is in AmigaDOS
Hmm… maybe I should start to bug Commodore for a patch. (^_-)