jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) (01/19/89)
I recently got an external drive for my Amiga (the A1010) but some
software (Epyx Street-Sports Basketball and the PD game Grav Tech are
two examples) refuses to run when the drive is hooked in! Other software
runs fine, and the drive seems to work great. Could it be a memory
problem? As of now I still don't have a meg (I ordered it with the
computer and the drive, but got put on backorder; grrrr....)... It
worries me a little, especially since I just got this thing and I love
it!
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In article <1452@leah.Albany.Edu> jac423@leah.Albany.Edu (Julius A Cisek) writes: > >I recently got an external drive for my Amiga (the A1010) but some >software (Epyx Street-Sports Basketball and the PD game Grav Tech are >two examples) refuses to run when the drive is hooked in! Other software >runs fine, and the drive seems to work great. Could it be a memory >problem? As of now I still don't have a meg (I ordered it with the >computer and the drive, but got put on backorder; grrrr....)... It >worries me a little, especially since I just got this thing and I love >it! >-- Sorry, the drive takes up some memory for buffers and system shtuff. Game software is sometimes written to use all 512k. I would just wait for the memory expansion. If you can't, you can wire a little switch to disable the drive (i don't know which pin offhand), but it shouldn't be difficult. -Vince Lee
ecarroll@cs.tcd.ie (Eddy Carroll) (01/20/89)
In article <27599@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, me128-aw@kepler.Berkeley.EDU (me128 student) writes: > > Sorry, the [external] drive takes up some memory for buffers & system stuff. > Game software is sometimes written to use all 512k. I would just wait for > the memory expansion. If you can't, you can wire a little switch to > disable the drive (i don't know which pin offhand), but it shouldn't be > difficult. > > -Vince Lee I've done this (by adding a switch to pin #21), and it works great. However, I now find myself with another problem. I recently got a hard disk, so I don't need to use the external drive much now. As a result, I tend to keep it switched off (it frees up some memory and stops the clicking). The problem is that if I need to copy some floppy disks sometime after booting up with the drive disabled, I have to reboot to get access to it again. Is there any way to get the system to recognise the drive if it wasn't present at the last reset? I've tried MOUNTing it (using a modified version of the entry to make DF1: an alias for DF2: which comes in the A2000's mountlist) but though it mounts okay, all attempts to access it say it's not there. Speaking of hard drives, I'm using the C Ltd. controller with the V2.06 driver software, and it is only reading around 50K/second according to DiskPerf. The dealer said that there was a new driver due out in a month or two (V3.0) which would speed things dramatically - has anyone in the states used this yet, and if so, is it much faster? -- Eddy Carroll ----* Genuine MUD Wizard | "You haven't lived until INTER: ecarroll@cs.tcd.ie | until you've died in UUCP: {..uunet}!mcvax!ukc!cs.tcd.ie!csvax1!ecarroll | MUD!" - Richard Bartle