#Dismount
6 messages in this thread
Is it possible to "dismount" a device once it has been mounted? I have a
game that will only work with one drive mounted and its a pain in the but
to unplug my external drive everytime I want to play.
Paul,
There is not a way to do this =- at least, if there is a way, it is not
documented. I've seen lots of requests for an "unmount' command, but have
never seen any hint that there might be such a thing.
If you boot from the game disk, could you just not mount that disk in the
first place?
……Betty
Betty,
For some reason I still have to unplug the second drive when booting from
the game disk (Space Quest III). Mayby I can customize the boot disk
somehow (startup-sequence?).
paul
An off/on switch on the drive would help, wouldn't it? Some of mine have
one, some do not.
……Betty
Paul, if you have a CLI prompt in front of you before booting SQIII,
type:
assign df1: remove
or type df2: instead of df1: if you have a 2000 line machine. I don't
think that's quite an unmount, because I don't believe it returns the
device driver memory, but it hides the device. I remember I needed this
when I wanted to reassign the ram disk to point to my hard drive. I had to
assign ram: remove, then assign ram: hd:.
— Ethan
Betty,
AmigaDOS auto-mounts all the floppy drives it finds. The only way to get
back the RAM used (which is why the game probably needs the drive not
mounted) is to power down, unplug the drive and power up again.
Peter_S (LeCroy Corp)
"Software means never having to say you're finished"