Donald_B_Phillips@cup.portal.com (07/23/88)
Maybe I've missed something in my manuals or in other discussions. I seem to remember recently reading about the jumper (J301, I think) that is located under the internal disk connector being used to make the external drive respond as DF1:. What I have is an A2000 w/ 1 internal and 1 external drive. The external drive thinks it is DF2:. Running the version of AssingDev that I have to make DF1: doesn't seem to make some programs happy. (Format comes to mind). Is there a hardware way (i.e. by setting jumpers somewhere) to make the external drive think it is DF1:? Thanks in advance for any help. Donald_Phillips@cup.portal.com
sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) (07/24/88)
In Message <7602@cup.portal.com>, Donald_B_Phillips@cup.portal.com writes: >Maybe I've missed something in my manuals or in other discussions. I seem >to remember recently reading about the jumper (J301, I think) that is located >under the internal disk connector being used to make the external drive respond >as DF1:. This jumper is to make the system aware of a 2nd INTERNAL drive. Not to make an external drive DF1: >What I have is an A2000 w/ 1 internal and 1 external drive. The external >drive thinks it is DF2:. Running the version of AssingDev that I have to >make DF1: doesn't seem to make some programs happy. (Format comes to mind). >Is there a hardware way (i.e. by setting jumpers somewhere) to make the >external drive think it is DF1:? I also have 1 internal (DF0:) and 1 external (DF1: & DF2:) drive on my 2000. But instead of using 'AssignDev' I added a new entry into my mountlist. It looks like this: /* MOUNTLIST file for allowing an external 3.5" (DF2:) to be mounted as DF1: */ DF1: Device = trackdisk.device Unit = 2 Flags = 1 Surfaces = 2 BlocksPerTrack = 11 Reserved = 2 PreAlloc = 11 Interleave = 0 LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 79 Buffers = 20 BufMemType = 3 # Im not sure if this works better or worse than 'AssignDev' since I have never tested AssignDev. I do know that most programs I don't boot from (IE: I use *MY* boot disk) will use this new DF1: -=- of course there are a few that will not. Like Marauder][, but then they dive into the deep dark regions where this kludge is unknown. >Thanks in advance for any help. Im not sure if this is/was of any help, but your welcome! >Donald_Phillips@cup.portal.com -- Dan "Sneakers" Schein {ihnp4|allegra|burdvax|rutgers}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers Sneakers Computing 2455 McKinley Ave West Lawn PA 19609 Call: BERKS AMIGA BBS 24 Hrs - 3/12/2400 Baud Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed are 40 Meg -=- 215/678-7691 those of Sneakers Computing Of course heimat is an Amiga, doesn't everyone run UUCP & UseNet on an Amiga?