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- From: jmayer@bloch.informatik.uni-kl.de (Joerg Mayer (HiWi Buhler))
- Subject: Re: Very strange DF0: problem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug16.165727.1629@posthorn.informatik.uni-kl.de>
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- Reply-To: jmayer@informatik.uni-kl.de (Joerg Mayer (HiWi Buhler))
- Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
- References: <Krzysztof.05qi@netxsys.guild.org>
- Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 16:57:27 GMT
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- >
- > Here's an odd problem: a few days ago my DF0: stopped reading, writing, and
- > formatting Amiga disks. However, it still reads and writes MS-DOS disks
- > using MessyDOS. Obviously the drive has not died and the heads are still
- > there, so does anyone have a clue as to what could be wrong? (A2000/2630,
- > WB2.04). Thanks.
- > --
- > Dan Griffin
- > griffin@egr.msu.edu
-
- A reason I can imagine is, that the drive recognition at system startup time
- fails (i.e. trackdisk doesn't recognize unit 0 is present). I don't know how
- MessyDOS works, but if it doesn't use trackdisk (RAW-commands of course) and
- relies on the information provided in the mountlist it will simply try to use
- it. There is just one drawback: I don't remember whether this mechanism is
- used to detect unit 0 at all or whether unit 0 is always assumed to be
- present.
-
- Joerg
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- J"org Mayer
- Universit"at Kaiserslautern (Germany)
- e-mail: jmayer@informatik.uni-kl.de
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