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PC/AT floppy disk drjyes
Although Golden Gate supports several formats on one and the same
floppy disk drive (e.g. 360KB. 720KB, 1.2MB on a 5.25" HD floppy disk
drive). only the format set with the configuration (see below) can be
used under AmigaDOS.
Example: you have selected the setting FD0-l .2MB
GoldenGate
in the
Floppy Drive Setup
for menu entry Floppy A I.e. there is a new drive GO:
available under AmigaDOS with a formatted capacity of memory of 1.2
MB.
Disks are formatted in the drives GO. and GI: with the following
command:
FORMAT DRIVE GO: NAME
name
FFS<ENTER>
Since PC/AT floppy disk controllers do not provide a Media-Change
mechanism similar to that of the Amiga floppy disk controller. a disk
change in GO: (G 1 :) must explicitly be announced to the AmigaDOS. This
is done both under the C!Vthe Shell and under the Workbench by
simultaneously pressing the keys:
Left Alt-key
+
Left Shift-key
+
Ctrl-key
Disks formatted in the AmigaDOS format (880KB) can not be operated in
GO: or G 1 :. This is caused by the different physical recording-formats of
Amiga and PC/AT floppy disk controllers.
PC/AT hard disk drives·
There is a simple way to use a part of a PC/AT hard disk drive under
AmigaDOS. This partitioning is done indirectly with the MS-DOS
program FDISK. FDISK asks you, whether you want to use the complete
hard disk under MS-DOS. Answer this question with N(o). FD!SK now
asks how many cylinders/MB (according to the MS-DOS version) shall be
used for the MS-DOS drive.
The rest of the PC/AT hard disk drive (i.e. complete capacity minus MS­
DOS capacity) will then not be used by MS-DOS and is available as
AmigaDOS drive G2.
Example: a 42 MB IDE hard disk is connected to Golden Gate's IDE
interface. With FDISK you have installed a MS-DQS drive C with 20 MB.
I.e. 22 MB are left for G2:.
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G2: is formatted with the AmigaDOS command:
FORMAT DRIVE G2: NAME
name
QUICK FFS<ENTER>
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