Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aecom!aecom2!rosentha From: rosentha@aecom2.AECOM.YU.EDU (Yitzchak Rosenthal) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: A1020 (5.25 inch drive) Problems Message-ID: <506@aecom2.AECOM.YU.EDU> Date: 29 Nov 88 06:57:48 GMT Organization: Yeshiva University, New York Lines: 50 After waiting for a 1020 fo over a year my dealer finally got his hands on one for me. I ordered the drive the same time I ordered my amiga. The main reason I wanted the drive was to transfer ascii files from IBM floppys to my amiga at a reasonable rate (2400 baud is too slow for me :-) ). The problem is that while I can mount the drive as DF2: (using the mountlist entry that came with 1.3). The PCUtil programs do not work. I took the drive back to my dealer and tried it on a 500 and the PCUtil programs worked fine. I have an A2000 with 1 internal floppy a 2090 and a segate ST251N I think the problem is related to the fact that there is only 1 internal floppy and the PCUtil programs see the 1020 as DF2: but I am not sure. the PCUtil programs produce the following results: 1) in PCCopy no files show up 2) in PCFormat it starts up and I get an error (-4) right away. The 500 had no addons that I know of except for the 1020 and the PCUtil programs showed the drive as df1: I know the problem is not any software I am running because I tried booting straight of the original 1.3 floppys (did not even mount my harddrive). I am considering two possible solutions. 1) buying another internal drive (if the missing df1: is for some strange reason causing the problem and putting one in will fix it). 2) buying Dos2Dos or its equivalent (if its commodore's PCUtil software thats buggy and I have some proof that Dos2Dos it will work) Since both These options are expensive and I am just guessing at what is wrong I would like to know if anyone has any suggestions as to the cause and cure of this problem. Thanks in advance Elazar Rosenthal ( I'm posting this form my brothers account) yrosenth@aecom2