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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Problem w/ AWrite on
- From: stewart.hunt@canrem.com (Stewart Hunt)
- Path: canrem.com!stewart.hunt
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <60.130.4478.0N20D28E@canrem.com>
- References: <1996Mar12.131507.1@aspen>
- Date: Wed, 13 Mar 96 22:20:00 -0500
- Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario)
-
- At 2:20 PM on 13 Mar 96, Spaces@Woods.Uml.Edu said to All:
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-
- Sp> I am trying to transfer files from my A2286 BB to the Amiga side
- Sp> using Janus 2.1 and am running into a problem. First the hardware
- Sp> and software info>
-
- Sp> Amiga side:
- Sp> A2000
- Sp> 68020 accel
- Sp> 4 megs fast
- Sp> 1 meg chip
- Sp> 120 meg scsi hd
- Sp> A2091
- Sp> two 880 k floppies
-
- Sp> Bridgeboard side:
- Sp> A2286 8 Mhz
- Sp> 1 meg
- Sp> 85 meg IDE hd w/ pc controller card
- Sp> 1.2 meg floppy
- Sp> VGA adaptor
-
- Sp> Software:
- Sp> AmigaDOS 3.1/Janus 2.1
- Sp> MS DOS 5.0
-
- Sp> okay now the problem is that when I try to run AWrite from the bb
- Sp> side the bb hangs up and I have to reboot the ibm side. My old bb
- Sp> manual (I can't find the new one) says run PCDisk on the Amiga side
- Sp> then tranfer the files using Awrite on the BB side. Well I don't
- Sp> have the old Janus software and my system doesn't have PCDisk on it.
- Sp> Is this my problem. I may have accidently lost that file but I
- Sp> thouigh it was replaced by DOSServ.
-
- Sp> Any thoughts on this problem. BTW everything else works great
- Sp> (AMOuse, Windows, LPT1, etc...).
-
- Sp> Thanks in advance.
-
- Sp> Eric
-
- If you are using Smartdrv in your Config.sys file, add the /X switch
- and transfers should work O.K. I'm assuming that when you say it
- "hangs", that it actually begins transferring files and then hangs in
- the middle of a transfer...and that ARead is working correctly.
-
- Regards,
-
- Stewart Hunt
-
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