sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) (07/03/90)
Well, I've been playing with my A3000 (man is this thing FAST!!!) and I noticed a small problem. I THINK it is a BETA AMIGAOS 2.0 problem, but I may be wrong. I have a number of floppies which are IBM format (I have to download usenet stuff to a PS/2 and use CrossDos) and some of them I had not labelled (oops!!). So I was looking through my unlabelled disks to see which ones I wanted and which could become blanks. Well, when I inserted a disk that was not formatted for the Amiga, the system "thought" for a second, put up a disk icon with DF0:???? under it, and gave me a requestor stating that the disk was NOT an AmigaDOS disk (not the exact words) with continue and cancel SELECT buttons. So I select Cancel, the requester goes away, BUT the DRIVE LIGHT stays on. I can hear that it is engaged as well. I have access to the shell (so I can use C commands (e.g. dir DF0: gives me the not an AmigaDos requester again)) but I cannot STOP the disk drive from continually accessing the drive. My only option was to RE-BOOT the system. Well, this is a REALLY PAINFUL WAY to find out if a disk is formatted for AmigaDos!! (I tried it several times to see if it was a fluke, but had the same results). I was able to stop the access in one case by FORMATTING the disk. While the drive was LOCKED in ACCESS mode, I typed FORMAT drive df0: name Blank noicons, AND the system formatted the disk properly and then stopped accessing the disk. Any comments? Is there a proper channel to air these problems to CBM so that they are aware of them?? Other than that, this machine is GREAT!!! I highly recommend it to EVERYONE!!! Thanks, Scott Sutherland sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu
jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup) (07/05/90)
In article <1066@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) writes: > Well, I've been playing with my A3000 (man is this thing >FAST!!!) and I noticed a small problem. I THINK it is a BETA AMIGAOS 2.0 >problem, but I may be wrong. I think this has been fixed, but it's hard to tell, since you didn't say what version of the OS you were running ("version" from a shell). Also, is this a production machine (which started shipping about a week and a half ago), or is this one of the dealer demo models (which had a pre-release version of the software on them)? I think the demo units aren't supposed to be sold. (I'm not in marketing.) -- Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering. {uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup Common phrase heard at Amiga Devcon '89: "It's in there!"