Mounting ADF's

[Arnie]

Is there a way to detect if the mounted virtual floppy has an image attached?

I'm thinking along the lines of checking for volume =, that way I wouldn't need to dismount the drive and, as Thomas pointed out, save some memory.

The way I would like to do it is, Check if a drive has a volume attached, if yes, mount another drive, if no, use the available drives.

Sound feasible?

[thomas]

That is quite tricky in a shell script. This could work:

info adf0: >t:info.out
search >nil: t:info.out "No disk present"
if not warn
  echo "no disk in adf0"
endif

[Arnie]

Originally Posted by thomas

That is quite tricky in a shell script. This could work:

info adf0: >t:info.out
search >nil: t:info.out "No disk present"
if not warn
  echo "no disk in adf0"
endif

That could work but sadly not with isomount. Works with XFS but, I can't reload an Image into file0:. So 6800

Works great with diskimage though. So 020

[Arnie]

Updated archive post #1

Thanks Thomas

[Arnie]

Another small update:

Added Selecting your path to ADF files on first startup.

post #1 updated

Will look into mounting Diskspare, dms & adz files...

How's it going Prowler?

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Arnie

How's it going Prowler?

I thought I'd wait to see how your version polishes up and then create a DiskSpare version.

It was just an idea of mine. However, if you'd like to give it a go yourself, then I'll not steal your thunder.

I did write myself a procedure for how to extract DiskSqueeze archives of DiskSpare ADFs into a file mounted using FMSDisk.device, which I could post here if you think it might help.

[Arnie]

To be honest I'm not getting very far with diskspare, one minute it works ok then nothing can be read.

I think I'm about done with my version, I might add an extra button to reset the user defined paths for adf's.

The A500/68000 version is going nowhere at the moment. It needs a type of diskimage.device for that CPU.

Feel free to add to mine or make a free standing one, it's for the benefit of all afterall.

[prowler]

Okay. I'm looking at the Ninja Gaiden II disks at the moment, with a view to fixing the graphics corruption on Level 7.

When I'm done with that (one way or the other), I'll have a go at creating a MountADF DiskSpare version.

[UncleSpam]

Does anyone know why IconX has problems parsing the "IF" command, which is a resident/internal command?

I get the error:

"Must be in a command file
IF failed returncode 10"

The script works fine if run from CLI...

[Toni Wilen]

I guess this should be in some other forum? I don't think WinUAE needs help with ADF mounting.

[Arnie]

Originally Posted by UncleSpam

Does anyone know why IconX has problems parsing the "IF" command, which is a resident/internal command?

I get the error:

"Must be in a command file
IF failed returncode 10"

The script works fine if run from CLI...

Is the script bit set? eg. RWED-S

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Toni Wilen

I guess this should be in some other forum? I don't think WinUAE needs help with ADF mounting.

Thread moved to support.Other forum.

[Arnie]

MountADF Final uploaded 24-12-12

Merry Christmas eveyrone

Arnie

[prowler]

Thanks, Arnie!

[UncleSpam]

Originally Posted by Arnie

Is the script bit set? eg. RWED-S

Nope, same issue, even with the S bit set... not sure if it makes a difference that I only tried it in WinUAE and not my A1200 yet... I'll do that next.

[Arnie]

Hey Prowler....how's it going.

I've managed to get Diskspare disks mounted, did you have any luck with DSQ?

If you haven't got round to it yet I can upload my new version here.

Arnie

[prowler]

Hi Arnie,

Please go ahead and upload your version. I have been very busy and have made no headway on this.

PS. I never intended to mount DSQ archives in this way. They can be extracted to ADF (standard or DiskSpare) with Toni Wilen's UAEUNP 0.8 tool, available on the WinUAE downloads page, and then mounted.

[Arnie]

Yes, i understand, life gets in the way sometimes. I don't start back work 'till the 7th so I've had some spare time

Not tried UAEUNP 0.8 tool yet, is it easier than DSQ, does it unpack all the Diskspare disks?

Anyway here is a version 2 of MountADF that mounts AmigaDos & Diskspare (960mb)disks. Only works for 020 cpu due to diskimage not working for 68000 cpu's.

Oh, almost forgot, in keeping with real Amigas, only 4 drives can be used, AmigaDos & Diskspare share a drive, i.e If there ia Amigados disk in drive ADF0: then you need to eject the disk to mount a disk in ADS0:.

Enjoy

EDIT: Just found another file size for diskspare disks (923648), will add it in next release.

[prowler]

Originally Posted by Arnie

Anyway here is a version 2 of MountADF that mounts AmigaDos & Diskspare (960mb)disks. Only works for 020 cpu due to diskimage not working for 68000 cpu's.

Oh, almost forgot, in keeping with real Amigas, only 4 drives can be used, AmigaDos & Diskspare share a drive, i.e If there ia Amigados disk in drive ADF0: then you need to eject the disk to mount a disk in ADS0:.

Enjoy

Thanks, Arnie! I'll give it a try.

Originally Posted by Arnie

Not tried UAEUNP 0.8 tool yet, is it easier than DSQ, does it unpack all the Diskspare disks?

Yes, it's a lot easier than setting up and using DiskSqueeze, though, of course, it's a Windows command line utility. However, it unpacks all DiskSpare disks I've tested it with.

For details of how to use the tool (it can be a bit confusing), read the relevant parts of this thread: Uaeunp (26-10-10) extracts corrupted ADF from DSQ archive. (Don't worry, that particular bug is fixed in later versions. )

[lesta_smsc]

Nice tool Arnie!