| From: | Andrew Deacon |
| Date: | 29 Apr 2001 at 16:59:54 |
| Subject: | Re: PC4! Huh! What is it good for (absolutely nothing?) |
Hi,
> Hi everyone, hope you can help,
Sort of:)
> 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?
>
I'd reccomend you get MFS off aminet , this
puts all your mountlists for Zips in one drawer. It has the benefit of
doing away with ghosted icons and whatever name you call the drawer is
the only name you need to access the drive. I use 'Zip' , nice and
simple. This is even more handy when you use extra filesytems such as
PFS as well. MFS can do the same for floppy drives as well.
Try setting 'Disable Mount' in IDe Fix , this won't stop your drive
working with mountlists.
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