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- Path: ulowell.uml.edu!aspen!spaces
- From: spaces@woods.uml.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
- Subject: Re: Problem w/ AWrite on
- Date: 15 Mar 96 16:34:10 -0500
- Organization: Univ. of Massachusetts-Lowell
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <1996Mar15.163410.1@aspen>
- References: <1996Mar12.131507.1@aspen> <60.130.4478.0N20D28E@canrem.com>
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- Actually ARead does the same thing. I issue the command and the cursor
- disappears and nothing until the three fingered salute (CLT-ALT-DEL :-).
-
- I do have the Smartdrive (ironic name eh?) in my config.sys so perhaps I will
- comment all the windows junk out and try again.
-
- Thanks to the advice.
-
-
-
- In article <60.130.4478.0N20D28E@canrem.com>, stewart.hunt@canrem.com (Stewart Hunt) writes:
- > At 2:20 PM on 13 Mar 96, Spaces@Woods.Uml.Edu said to All:
- >
- >
- > 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
- >
- > .. "It is an art form to hate New York City properly." -- Pat Conroy
- > * Q-Blue 2.1 *
-