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- >The original plan was to render pictures out
- >onto an external, and hook the external onto an Amiga w/
- >frame-by-frame-recorder, and use CrossDOS to go between the two...but when
- >we try to load the images, but for some reason the Amiga thinks there's
- >nothing on the disk.......It was a serious lack of foresight on our part not
- >to actually make sure this would work.
-
- >Nori Yoshida | MUAHAHAHAHAHAHhahaheheohohoho haha ha.....ah, well
- >yoshid19@mo.net | never mind..........
- >----------------|
- >
-
- What you're describing SHOULD work, but there are a couple of reasons why it
- might not.
-
- 1) There are two ways the Raptor can format a hard drive: either NTFS or
- FAT. "NTFS" stands for NT File System, and it can't be read by regular DOS
- or Windows. This also means it can't be read by Cross Dos. The external
- drive must be FAT formatted, which is what DOS uses. The regular 8-character
- limit applies. You have to specifically tell NT that you want to format a
- drive as FAT.
-
- 1a) First run Disk Administrator so that NT is aware of the external drive.
-
- 2a) Then click on the MS-DOS Command Prompt icon in the Main window. In
- this text
- window you will type the format commads. Assuming the drive is named
- "F:", you would type: FORMAT F: /FS:FAT. Now wait a few minutes.
- (For a complete list of Format
- commands, type HELP FORMAT.)
-
- 2) The last time I checked, Cross Dos required a special script for each
- size PC drive you connect. These are text files that can be created by
- changing a few numbers in an exisitng script included with Cross Dos. If you
- know all about the above steps already, this may very well be your problem.
- You're going to have to create that script and I can't tell you how, but it
- is possible and I've seen it done. Get in touch with a someone at a
- dealership who can help you.
-
- I hook PC SyQuests up to my A3000 all the time, because long ago a friend
- helped me write a mountlist script for them. It can be done, so perservere.
- You could also try networking through the parallel ports, which is pretty
- cheap, or ethernet. But parport networking is dog-slow, and ethernet will
- set you back a few hundred bucks. The disk-swap method is physically clumsy
- but at least costs nothing.
-
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