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- From: josborne@mercury.thepoint.net (James Osborne)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Need help with AE HD floppy
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 15:34:24 GMT
- Organization: ThePoint Internet Services, Inc.
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- I've had an Applied Engineering High Density floppy for a while, and have
- been having problems with it. It works FINE as a dd floppy, but I cant
- seem to get it to work as HD.
- Every time I place a floppy in it, it seems to revert to dd mode, even if
- the disk is HD. I go to format it, and it does one of two things....
- A: formats it to 880K
- or B: Says it's formating, pauses for several moments on sector 0 then
- says the disk is unusable. I've gone through several boxes of HD
- disks, so it SHOULDNT be the floppies.
-
- I've fooled around with the mountlist trying to get it to work, and it
- changes what happens, but not enough!
-
- I'm using the drive as DF1:/DF5: on a A500 with 2.0.
-
- For anyone who has used one before, but doenst remember, I'll post what
- I've been doing...
-
- I copied AETD.DEVICE and MOUNTLIST.AE to my DEVS: drawer. They are the
- HD device patch, and the mountlist for the HD drive.
-
- In my SS, I've added:
- DEVS:AETD.DEVICE
- MOUNT: DF5: FROM DEVS:MOUNTLIST.AE
- DISKCHANGE DF1:
- DISKCHANGE DF5:
-
- Mountlist.ae basically contains the following:
- DF5: DEVICE = TRACKDISK.DEVICE
- UNIT=5
- FLAGS=1
- SURFACES=2
- BLOCKPERTRACK=19
- RESERVED=2
- INTERLEAVE=0
- LOWCYL=0 ; HIGHCYL=79
- BUFFERS=20
- BUFFMEMTYPE=3
-
- Now, I've tried contacting AE, but I cant get through to anybody...
- May have a wrong/old number or something...
- So, my question is this...
- Anyone have one/had one and got it working as a HD drive?
-
- Any help would be appreciated.....
- Thanks
-
-
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