| From: | James Potter |
| Date: | 29 Apr 2001 at 20:31:17 |
| Subject: | PC4! Huh! What is it good for (absolutely nothing?) |
Hi everyone, hope you can help,
I've got a ATAPI zip 100 drive plugged into a 4-way IDE adaptor, run using
IDE-Fix. I access the drive using mountfiles as opposed to RDBs etc.
The drive gets mounted two ways: once as part of IDE-Fix, when it appears as
DF4: and can read Amiga-formatted zips; it also gets mounted as ZIPPC using
the crossdos filesystem so that I can swap disks between my Amiga and my PC.
CrossDOS will recognise an MS-DOS formatted zip fine - when the disk is
accessed the horribly ancient CrossDos disk icon appears. I also get a
ghosted, non-accessible icon representing DF4: (understandably). However, I
also get another ghosted icon, claiming to be PC4:
Presumably this PC4: must be the zip drive, but I don't have any mounts for
it in Devs. Therefore, it's been installed as part of IDE-Fix (unless it's
something in OS3.9?). Thing is, I can't find any reference to it at all in
the scant IDE-Fix docs, and it won't read the MS-DOS formatted zip in any
case ("Uninitialized") so what good is it?
With nothing in Devs but the volume showing under the CLI command Info, does
anybody have any suggestions as to how I can go about about finding out any
more?
Cheers,
James
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