more than 4 floppy drives?

[Dionysis]

Is that possible?
I am loading Sound Tracker songs. The samples occupy 8 disks. It would be nice if I could load all the diskettes at the same time, so I wouldn't have to "insert disk x..."

[Thomas Richter]

It's called "hard disk" and "assign". (-;

[Dionysis]

ah... "hard disk" is the same as "floppy disk"? Do you mean permanently loading the disk files as hard drive material? That would be good too I guess. Is there a tutorial about this?

[Tomislav]

No. Even physically Amiga supports only up to 4 floppy drives.

With AmigaOS 3.2 you can mount ADF image as new drive.

For OS 1.3 exists Drive Mimic (I don't know if it will work with other Amiga OS-es). It can mount additional drives from ADF images. (I think up to 4)
http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/DiskMimic

There is ADF Device that can mount up to 16 drives from ADF images. It's command line tool.
http://bfugl.dk/Download.asp

Also there is GoADF! shareware which can also mount (up to 4) additional drives from ADF images. It needs Amiga OS 2.0 and greather. (this program use ADF Device, previously mentioned)
https://bitplan.pl/goadf/ or HTTP version http://bitplan.pl/goadf

[MiaM]

Originally Posted by Dionysis

ah... "hard disk" is the same as "floppy disk"? Do you mean permanently loading the disk files as hard drive material? That would be good too I guess. Is there a tutorial about this?

Just copy each ST-xx disk to separate directories, preferably named the same as the disks. Say for example DH0:samples/ST-01 and so on. Then add to S:user-startup a line for each "disk", something like
ASSIGN ST-01: DH0:samples/ST-01

It should work without any parameters although you can save some boot time if you add the parameter to ASSIGN that tells it to only go ahead and make the actual assign when something actually tries to use it. This only makes a noticeable difference when you have more than a few assigns.

[aribeth23]

Originally Posted by MiaM

Just copy each ST-xx disk to separate directories, preferably named the same as the disks. Say for example DH0:samples/ST-01 and so on. Then add to S:user-startup a line for each "disk", something like
ASSIGN ST-01: DH0:samples/ST-01

I would not use a drive descriptor like DH0: I would write a script in the basedir of samples/ in this case: DH0:mount_samples.cli
ASSIGN ST-01: "samples/ST-01"


That way it is more portable and in other scripts you could just:
cd DH0:
execute mount_samples.cli