beatyr@pur-ee.UUCP (Robert Beaty) (08/08/86)
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I have a question that I hope that someone out there can answer.
Yesterday I was installing a disk drive on my 520ST. My system is:
- 520ST with TOS in ROM and 1 Meg upgrade
- Monochrome monitor
- One single-sided SF354 disk drive (standard set-up)
I selected a disk drive (you have to do this in order to install a
new one) and changed the drive label to c, this I thought would
default to uppercase C. Well when I installed the drive the label
was a lower case c. When I double clicked the icon a window opened
up where a disk window should but insted of the usual 'C:\' I got
'Cartridge'. This is unusual in light of the fact that I do not have
a physical c drive, or a ram disk installed for c.
When I tried to copy things into this window it said something like
'This folder unavailable for access' or something like that. When I
tried to copy a folder from A: to Cartridge it gave me no error
message, but it didn't show up as being copied either.
To compound this bafflement I saved the Desktop so that the new
c (Cartridge) drive would remain on the desktop. When I re-booted
the system the icon was gone. I viewed the desktop.inf file and
I saw this:
( one of my normal drives )
#M 00 00 00 ... A FLOPPY DISK@... (not too worried about #'s)
( the c drive that opened as Cartridge )
#C 00 00 00 ... c CARTRIDGE@ ...
^
|---- This is the difference I found. If I changed this C to an M,
like the other disk drives, the icon would appear on boot-up. However,
when I double-clicked on it it would give the familiar 'Disk not available'
error I get when I try to double-click on my ram disk and have not
installed it yet. I could not copy files or folders to this modified
drive, but when I changed it back to a C in desktop.inf all was as
before and the icon was gone on boot-up.
Questions:
1) What is this? An icon for the cartridge port? If I plug something
in there that the ST can read will it show up in this window?
2) What does the C mean after the # in the desktop.inf file?
3) If this is a window for the cartridge port, how do I keep it on
the desktop?
I would really be interested if anyone could shed some light on the
subject. I realize this is not really that pressing, but how many
other 'unknown' features are there to this system? Thanks for any
help you may provide.
Bob
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arpanet: beatyr@ed.purdue.edudyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer) (08/13/86)
In article <4392@pur-ee.UUCP>, beatyr@pur-ee.UUCP writes: > 1) What is this? An icon for the cartridge port? If I plug something > in there that the ST can read will it show up in this window? Yes, it's an icon for the cartridge port. The developer's kit explains how to make a cartridge that will cause files to show up in the cartridge icon's window. -- -Landon Dyer, Atari Corp. {sun,lll-lcc,lll-crg!vecpyr}!atari!dyer /-----------------------------------------------\ | The views represented here do not necessarily | "If Business is War, then | reflect those of Atari Corp., or even my own. | I'm a Prisoner of Business!" \-----------------------------------------------/
rick@rose3.UUCP (Richard R. Sharpe) (08/19/86)
[ Eat this !! ] I had great problems developing applications for use with the cartridge port. Everything seemed to give me bombs right away. I finally got a directory up when I built a cart with just names and "rts"s. I called R Frick's number at atari. I got passed around for a while but eventually got to someone that appeared to know what was happening (unfortunately, I forget his name). He said that application-type cartridges have never worked under any rev of TOS!!! This kinda shook me up and I questioned him further but he wouldn't change his story. There is some way around the problem, that involved booting without disks attached or something but I wasn't able to figure it out. Has *anyone* been able to get an application cartridge running ? Rick Sharpe at Rosemount Inc, Burnsville MN (612)-885-2017 ihnp4!quest!rose3!rick (612)-423-9096 ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!rosevax!rose3!rick PS. Landon, Claudia says HI!