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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
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- Subject: Re: Dell/CrossDos. Help!
- Date: 18 Feb 96 10:09:17 +0500
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- On or about 13-Feb-96 09:01:02 David Jarvis typed the following words about
- "Re: Dell/CrossDos. Help!". My reply is thus...
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- >>
- >>>> OK, ok, after patiently waiting for a LOOONG time, I finally give in.
- >>>> get this bloody Dell to read HiDensity IBM Disks reliably? I can read
- >>>> 1.76 mb no worries. I have crossdos (free with WB3.0) on my accelerat
- >>>> and IT JUST WONT READ IBM DISKS! i have tried about a dozen different
- >>>> from a range of machines with no luck... :-P What am I doing wrong???
- >>
- >>>Have you moved the DOS drivers from starage to the DEVS directory?
- >>--
- >>Ed Krafsur
- >>krafsur@iastate.edu
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- DJ> I was helping my brother set up his Amiga 500 with WB 2.1 for CrossDOS, a
- DJ> nothing seemed to work, as far as moving the file from Storage to Devs,
- DJ> changing the Activate=, etc. Then I took a look at the
- DJ> S:start-up.sequence, and found that a shareware program's startup-sequenc
- DJ> file had deleted the binddrivers line, which is why the new CrossDOS PC1:
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- Uhh...you don't need binddrivers to make crossdos work. You do have to run the
- crossdos commodity though.
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- DJ> driver wasn't being mounted, and nothing was being read. So you might wa
- DJ> to check that your s:startup-sequnece (ie your boot-file) has all the sam
- DJ> stuff as the original WB disk's s:startup-sequence file did.
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- DJ> Hope this helps.
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- DJ> David Jarvis
- DJ> --
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- DJ> * djarvis@u.washington.edu or http://weber.u.washington.edu/~djarvis
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