#cross-dos
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Brian, thanks you for the help on cross dos. I did find the pc0, pc1, etc in
storage/dosdrivers. BTW, i did neglect to tell you that i am using wb 2.1, one
3 1/2 floppy and hard drive inside a2000. Now, if I understad this correctly. I
should also open devs, and drag pc0 from storage/dosdrivers over dosdrivers
icon in devs. is that right? Then after reboot, the floppy drive will be both
amiga/pc drive. From then on, will it write both amiga and pc anytime, or do i
need to change it over to amiga? Brian, before I try this, I need to be sure. I
cant afford to mess up my amiga at this time and be stuck. I did read the
manual, but somehow i'm missing something, and i'm not sure about the
procedure. please help, i'm learning thanks, george
"…the floppy drive will be both amiga/pc drive…"
Yes, that's right, depending on which formatted floppy you insert. On the
Workbench there will be two disk icons. One showing the name of the disk
and the other like this pc0:???? or this df0:????
It depends on the disk's format.
Christopher
George,
no problem, I was a bit concerned the first time I tried it here. Go
ahead and drag the files. Since they are stock, they can't screw up
anything beyond giving you an additional capability.
Once you've done the reboot, whenever you insert a diskette, you'll see
two icons appear for each disk inserted, instead of the one before. If
the diskette is an Amiga diskette, you'll see the normal diskette icon
appear as well as one with PC0:???? (or PC1:????) appear. If the diskette
is an IBM diskette, the reverse will be true, i.e. something like DF0:????
and DOS6.2.
In any case, you can't harm the system, and it's completely reversible
if things go wrong (which is VERY unlikely).
One more comment. If you want to format a disk, while on the
Workbench, make sure that you correctly select whichever disk is
appropriate. If you want to format a disk for Amiga, select the Amiga
DF0: or DF1: icon. If you want to format a disk for the IBM, select the
IBM icon. This one has caught me unaware at times.
Brian
bjbart@watserv.ucr.edu