Renaming DF0: to DF1: at boot

[Rochabian]

Hi!!!
I'm running CD32+SX32 and i want to reassign my external DF0: to DF1: in the startup-sequence, then mount a virtual floppy drive as DF0: to use adf,dms or ipf image to run adf games (that's why it needs to be DF0: )

How can i rename a device in the startup (and let it available to be mounted....)
Thanks!!!

[Rochabian]

I assume it's surely a newbie question but it's been a loooonnng time i've used Amiga OS....
Please help me

[Coagulus]

The old Two mouse buttons at reboot doesn't help does it?

[Rochabian]

No, because the drive is always shown as DF0:
Whenever it switch the jumper on the drive to be DF1:, for the SX32 its's DF0:..........

(For info, my drive is Sony MPF520-1)

[ganralf]

You need two mountlists.
One to mount df0 as df1:

Device = trackdisk.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 0
FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
LowCyl = 0; HighCyl = 79
Mask = 0x1FFFFF
GlobVec = -1
Buffers = 30
BufMemType = 3
Mount = 1

Save it as a file called df1.

An mountlist to mount a virtual floppy as df0 (using fmsdisk here):

Device = fmsdisk.device
Unit = 0
Flags = 1
Surfaces= 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 0; HighCyl= 79
Buffers = 2
BufMemType = 0

Save it as file called df0.

You can then unmount df0 and mount the others with:

assign df0: dismount
mount <path>df0
mount <path>df1

In the end you would like to put the files df0 and df1 in devs:dosdrivers and put the assign command into the startup-sequence above the mount command.

[Jope]

Originally Posted by Rochabian

Hi!!!
I'm running CD32+SX32 and i want to reassign my external DF0: to DF1: in the startup-sequence, then mount a virtual floppy drive as DF0: to use adf,dms or ipf image to run adf games (that's why it needs to be DF0: )

So these are ADF games that are OS friendly yet hit DF0? This sounds an awful lot like an idea that sounds good but will not actually work.

Can you name a couple of those games you're going to run with this method?

I think you ought to look at WHDLoad for better results.

[Jope]

Originally Posted by ganralf

You can then unmount df0 and mount the others with:

assign df0: dismount
mount <path>df0
mount <path>df1

No need for a path in the mount command. Just stick the dosdrivers in sys:storage/dosdrivers.

Then you can directly mount them from the shell with mount df0: and mount df1:, no need to CD anywhere either.

[Rochabian]

Originally Posted by Jope

So these are ADF games that are OS friendly yet hit DF0? This sounds an awful lot like an idea that sounds good but will not actually work.

Can you name a couple of those games you're going to run with this method?

I think you ought to look at WHDLoad for better results.

It's not just for games that i want to do that, but programs, etc
I want to store my progs/games as ADF because i think it's safer than real floppies in time.....
I use WHDLOAD for quite all games,and it's great, i just don't want to have a tower of floppies in my room

I will try the method described and tell you the result....
Thanks....

[Rochabian]

So it works, but i cant' use IPF image and i can't use non-dos ADF with this system...........
So it's quite useless in fact........

[Jope]

Ok, so it was as I feared.

Oh well, whdload for the win!

[alewis]

The only thing I can think of is a hardware mod based on some hardware adaptors that were around donkeys years ago for changing the floppy ID of various drives. Examples

AddXtra Boot Selector, ICD ShuffleBoard, or the ALF SWB-M-BT

Whether the Amiga will understand, at a hardware and OS level, that it doesn't have a df0: and then mount a virtual device as df0: is another matter...