I am having issue with CrossDos

xboxown · 01 October 2022, 18:38

Hello guys,

I will display the entire scenario for you right now. My A500 have kickstart 2.x and I am using workbench 3.1. In workbench 3.1 there is CrossDOS PC0. I go to Storage and I double click PC0. It says it is mounted.

I format the disk to 720KB with name am for label. I take the disk and put it in my A500 and all I see is DF0:???? and that is that.

I tried to in newcli to type in pc0: and it says pc0:: unknown command. There is no other icon where I can access the contents of the fat formatted disk. I type in am: and it keeps asking for am:. It is not mounting. Any help?

nogginthenog · 02 October 2022, 16:44

DF0:???? is normal when you insert a PC formatted disk.
Check you have a CrossDOSFilesystem in l: and a mfm.device in devs:

Run snoopdos and see what happens when you type pc0:

zipper · 02 October 2022, 19:54

https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaO...bench_CrossDOS

demolition · 02 October 2022, 20:27

Are you using a proper DS-DD floppy disk? If your A500 is one of the later models that came with a DS-HD drive, then the drive will switch to HD and will not be able to read the contents if it was formatted as DD.

TEG · 02 October 2022, 22:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by demolition

Are you using a proper DS-DD floppy disk? If your A500 is one of the later models that came with a DS-HD drive, then the drive will switch to HD and will not be able to read the contents if it was formatted as DD.

I was thinking in the same line. I remember 1.2 MB floppy formatted 720 KB would no work. There was some magic to do but I don't recall the formula.

demolition · 03 October 2022, 07:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by TEG

I was thinking in the same line. I remember 1.2 MB floppy formatted 720 KB would no work. There was some magic to do but I don't recall the formula.

1.2MB disks are 51/4" and cannot be formatted to 720kB. 3½" DS-HD are 1.44MB in normal IBM format and I think we are talking about 3½" disks here.

TEG · 03 October 2022, 23:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by demolition

1.2MB disks are 51/4" and cannot be formatted to 720kB. 3½" DS-HD are 1.44MB in normal IBM format and I think we are talking about 3½" disks here.

You right of course. I wanted to talk about 1.44MB not 1.2MB.

Channel-Z · 04 October 2022, 09:11

Quote:

Originally Posted by nogginthenog

DF0:???? is normal when you insert a PC formatted disk.
Check you have a CrossDOSFilesystem in l: and a mfm.device in devs:

Run snoopdos and see what happens when you type pc0:

Computa says nooooo!

nogginthenog · 04 October 2022, 20:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by SnoopDOS

Computa says nooooo!

Useful.

01 October 2022, 18:38	#1
xboxown Registered User Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Vancouver/Canada Posts: 676	I am having issue with CrossDos Hello guys, I will display the entire scenario for you right now. My A500 have kickstart 2.x and I am using workbench 3.1. In workbench 3.1 there is CrossDOS PC0. I go to Storage and I double click PC0. It says it is mounted. I format the disk to 720KB with name am for label. I take the disk and put it in my A500 and all I see is DF0:???? and that is that. I tried to in newcli to type in pc0: and it says pc0:: unknown command. There is no other icon where I can access the contents of the fat formatted disk. I type in am: and it keeps asking for am:. It is not mounting. Any help?

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02 October 2022, 16:44	#2
nogginthenog Amigan Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: London Posts: 1,311	DF0:???? is normal when you insert a PC formatted disk. Check you have a CrossDOSFilesystem in l: and a mfm.device in devs: Run snoopdos and see what happens when you type pc0:

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zipper Registered User Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: finland Posts: 1,838	https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaO...bench_CrossDOS

02 October 2022, 20:27	#4
demolition Unregistered User Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Copenhagen / DK Age: 43 Posts: 4,190	Are you using a proper DS-DD floppy disk? If your A500 is one of the later models that came with a DS-HD drive, then the drive will switch to HD and will not be able to read the contents if it was formatted as DD.

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