Workbench - Ejecting a floppy

[DamienD]

Hey guys,

Can anyone tell me how to eject a floppy disk from Workbench?

Looked through AmigaDOS manuals; there's no "eject" but I did read something about "dismount" although when typing this I get unknown command...

[davideo]

I think you need Diskchange <Device Name>

[Cylon]

Ejecting a floppy disk requires to physically move your finger to the eject button on the drive. ;-) Remember: Amiga is not a Mac.

[davideo]

@Cylon

I didn't think he meant physically ejecting the disk LOL

[zipper]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Hey guys,

Can anyone tell me how to eject a floppy disk from Workbench?

Looked through AmigaDOS manuals; there's no "eject" but I did read something about "dismount" although when typing this I get unknown command...

It belongs to assign command:
Controls assignment of logical device names to files or directories.
Format
ASSIGN [<name>:] [{<target>}][LIST] [EXISTS] [DISMOUNT] [DEFER] [PATH] [ADD] [REMOVE] [VOLS] [DIRS] [DEVICES]
Template NAME,TARGET/M,LIST/S,EXISTS/;,DISMOUNT/S,DEFER/S,PATH/S,ADD/S,REMOVE/S,VOLS/S,DIRS/S,DEVICES/S

[hooverphonique]

if you want to tell the system that the volume in/on a drive has changed, use "diskchange".

[meynaf]

First you have to physically eject your floppy, like Cylon said.
Then the Workbench will automatically notice (maybe after a few seconds) and remove the disk icon, unless the disk is still in use somewhere (so you have to close all open files/dirs on it and also remove all assigns).

If something has really gone wrong/crazy with it and you want to force that removal, then you can type assign name: dismount (where name is the name displayed under the disk icon).
But beware : this is dangerous and can lead to a crash.

[DamienD]

Thanks for all your replies guys; will play around tonight

[Amiga1992]

When my disk drive did not recognize the diskchange signal because it was broken, I used "diskchange df0:" as suggested above to make the system recognize a new disk in drive or that I had ejected the one that was there before. That command is made for 5.25" disks but worked in my case.

Assign dismount removes the volume from the system, but in a floppy disk that is constantly looking for a new disk in drive, it might make it come back. The other possible outcome is that the whole device DF0: is dismounted so you can't make it come back again, unless you mount it back with a proper mountlist entry. I did not try this before.

[spannernick]

There is a app in Classic Workbench that mounts and dismounts ADF files as disks.Can't remember what it is called.. are you trying to mount a ADF file at boot time or something..?

I mount ADF files like demo disks or to copy to a floppy or use with WHDLoad.