#Amiga 1020 Drive
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I'm having tons of trouble with an Amiga 1020 5 1/4" external floppy drive
that I recently acquired for a mere $50. It's brand new and in the
box…however, it appears to not work (it powers up, but doesn't load
anything). Anyone out there that can help me?
J.R.
I seem to remember reading somewhere that you had to MOUNT 5 1/4" drives
for AmigaDOS to know about them. (DON'T mount them if you want to use them
with the PCCopy program.) Look in the Devs:MountList file on your original
Workbench disk and you should find an entry for it. I think it's called
DF2:. Try typing MOUNT DF2: and seeing what happens.
Jim:
Yeah, tried that already. Thanks anyway.
J.R.
I've used the 1020 a lot with my A1000, and have used it with the 2000HD.
It formats to only half the capacity of the Amiga drives, so the mountlist
has to be set for that. I used it as both an Amiga drive, and also as a
Commodore drive, using Disk-2-Disk. AND, also as an IBM drive using the
Transformer, and using the PC utilities that come on the Workbench. It
worked under all those configurations with the same mountlist entry,
though.
……Betty
J.R.
You need to mount the drive before you can access it, and also, if
you change disks in the drive, you need to issue the DISKCHANGE command
since the 5.25" drive doesn't support the diskchange signal.
A sample mountlist for it would look like this:
DF2: /* Can be just about anything */
Device = trackdisk.device
Unit = 2 /* depends on where it is in the drive chain! */
Flags = 1
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0
HighCyl = 39
Buffers = 5
BufMemType = 0
#
An entry like above would go in the file "mountlist" in your DEVS:
directory. Also, that '#' at the end MUST be all by itself, on a separate
line at the end of the mountlist.
Don