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From: sbmueller@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: mount vs. 3.5" drives
Message-ID: <13964@watmath.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 18:01:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: watmath.13964
Posted: Fri Jul 17 18:01:54 1987
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Reply-To: sbmueller@watmath.waterloo.edu (Stephan Mueller)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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In article <2061@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>
>Neither drive has to be mounted if it has an Amiga recognition circuit on
>it, as do both the C-A 3-1/2" drive and the C-A 5-1/4" drive.  On startup,
>the system polls drives DF1: and beyond for a string of 32 bits on the RDY
>line.  An 80 track drive sends the string "FFFFFFFF", a 40 track drive sends 
>the string "55555555", and if no drive is in that slot the "00000000" string
>is returned.  If there's interest (when I've got a few more minutes), I'll
>post how this can be done with simple hardware.

Please do tell then, why must I still do a mount on my 5.25" official C-A
drive, to use it under WB1.2?  It is obviously, as you say, recognized
by the machine (eg. the Transformer knows about it without a mount)
Also, why do I get DF1:BAD, DF2:BAD, DF3:BAD if the 5.25 isn't turned on?
What can I do to stop this (besides always turn on the drive).  More questions:
What must I do to the animal to have it do automatic diskchanges?  (I've had
it longer than the warranty, so I ain't worried about breaking nuthin.)
Finally, is there any news on the new and improved Transformer?
Thank you for taking the time to answer/ignore my probably painfully stupid,
frequently asked questions.
>
>-- 
>Dave Haynie     Commodore-Amiga    Usenet: {ihnp4|caip|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh
>"The A2000 Guy"                    BIX   : hazy
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