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- From: Steve Powell <Rock@g4wyc.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: Dell/CrossDos. Help!
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 96 16:48:28 GMT
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- In article <4f7st2$tbe@opera.iinet.net.au> cheshire@opera.iinet.net.au (John Parker) writes:
- > OK, ok, after patiently waiting for a LOOONG time, I finally give in. How do I
- > get this bloody Dell to read HiDensity IBM Disks reliably? I can read/write
- > 1.76 mb no worries. I have crossdos (free with WB3.0) on my accelerated 1200
- > and IT JUST WONT READ IBM DISKS! i have tried about a dozen different disks,
- > from a range of machines with no luck... :-P What am I doing wrong???
-
- Crossdos doesn't show an icon on the Workbench as standard but if you
- access the drive e.g. in a shell type;
- 1> dir pc0:
- and then look at Workbench you will find an icon appears. I found a
- solution to this, I've no idea where I got/thought of it from, it was to
- add the following to the PC0: mountlist (sys:storage/PC0)
-
- Unit = 0
- Activate = 1
-
- /* The Unit field is controlled by tooltypes in the PC0 icon.
- *
- * Unit = 0
- */
-
- Also the above /* */ comments tell you that the tooltypes control the
- unit number, well they don't on my system, so I guess that must be
- something in Kickstart 3.1 (which I don't have). The activate = 1 line
- makes an icon magically appear as soon as a disk is inserted :-)
-
- Anyway, long and short of it, try adding the above two lines to the
- mountlist and all should be well (Obviously change the unit number where
- appropriate). Let me know...
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