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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 123.1 | 'C' ICON | HAMSUP::WILK | | Tue Jun 14 1988 09:58 | 12 |
| HI,
WHEN YOU ARE FORMATTING AND INSTALLED THE PARTIONS AND THE DISK
IS READY TO GO, YOU CAN CREATE A DRIVE WITH A BIG 'C'.
I TRYED IT BY MY SELF AND FOUND IT OUT.
MFG
H.WILK
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| 123.2 | TO "C" or not to 'c' | RDGENG::KEANE | | Tue Jun 14 1988 11:31 | 24 |
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RE (.1)
Hi Herbert,
I keep typing "C" and it keeps vanishing on reboot.
No, my question was that without anything connected to the Atari
DMA port, ie NO Omti adaptor or anthing, I can add any disk ICON
letter(s) "D" thru whatever, save under DeskTop.inf and on next boot
the New ICONS will be preserved. HOWEVER "C" always vanishes, WHY the
difference?
P.S I have a prototype version of HDXCT.PRG. This is an
early version of the Bios that is in the June C'T magazine. This Bios
has a Disk Cache built in. It is constructed for a 10MB BASF
drive, I have a loan RD51 (10MB). It is written for drive "D". I
put the bios in an Auto folder, set ICON "D" and off I go reading
and writing on the hard drive like magic. So, My OMTI, adaptor
and Drive all work, however I cant load HDBIOS with ICON "C" !!!!
Cheers
Pat K.
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| 123.3 | C is a disk, c is a cartridge | MILRAT::WALLACE | | Tue Jun 14 1988 12:45 | 32 |
| What you are trying to do works fine on my system! That is if I
install drive C, save desktop, then reboot, I get the drive C icon
back on the desktop.
I think TOS does handle drive C slightly different than D,E,...
in that on reset/powerup if TOS thinks there is a drive/partition
C it will display a drive C ICON even if you have NOT done the
install/save_desktop sequence.
It seems that for some reason (in your case) GEM/TOS is not saving
the drive C information in DESKTOP.INF. Meaning that a work around
for you would be to install drive D, save desktop, then edit
DESKTOP.INF and change the D to a C in the appropriate line, IE:
Line 11: #M 00 02 00 FF D Hard disk@ @
becomes
Line 11: #M 00 02 00 FF C Hard disk@ @
^
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Drive letter
Save the modified file then reboot the system. The drive C Icon
should appear then. If it doesn't it would seem you have something
drasticly wrong.
NOTE: I always save a copy of DESKTOP.INF before I make any changes
to it with an editor. That way if I screw up DESKTOP.INF I can easily
recover. This may be less important if you don't have your DESKTOP.INF
"customized" with installed applications and windows that open to
desirable sizes and positions in a prefered order, etc..
Ray
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| 123.4 | I gave up on C - used D instead | TEA::PETERS | Don Peters, CTS1-2/K5, 287-3742 | Tue Jun 14 1988 13:47 | 7 |
| I've had similar problems trying to get my desktop to remember that
I had installed ramdisk C. I vaguely recall something special about
the way the system handles C, sort of reserving it.
I got around the problem by simply using drive D for my reset proof
RAM disk, and have had no problems since. C is unused.
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| 123.5 | Not me | DOOBER::MESSENGER | An Index of Metals | Tue Jun 14 1988 17:00 | 6 |
| I use the Supra drivers (available for about $30) and I don't have
this problem at all.
Bear in mind that the system init code will look for DESKTOP.INF
on drive C if it exists.
- HBM
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| 123.6 | Didn't mean to confuse anyone | MILRAT::WALLACE | | Wed Jun 15 1988 13:13 | 33 |
| Just to make sure that my memory wasn't playing tricks on me, I
played around with installing drive C this morning.
The results, I was slightly mistake in my previous reply (.3), in
that if I install drive C when there is no Ram disk or hard disk
associated with drive C a cold reset will cause the system to not
display the drive C Icon. I verified that the drive C icon information
was indeed being saved in DESKTOP.INF.
One courious thing is that if you have drive C installed (again
with no physical drive associated with it) and you "show" a text
file, when the desktop comes back the drive C icon will be GONE!
The drive C icon allways appears if I have either a hard disk or
a ramdisk (in this case SI_RAM.ACC) connected/installed.
Possibly Messanger (sp? and sorry I don't recall your first name)
had the right idea when he mentioned that TOS will try to read
DESKTOP.INF from drive C. When Tos doesn't get a response from drive
C then it may "refuse" to display the icon for it.
It still seems that if you-
Format your HD
Install/run the driver
Put a copy of the HD driver in /AUTO of your boot disk
Install drive icon C
Save the desktop (will get saved to drive C NOT the floppy)
That the drive C icon will always show up on reset and powerup.
This is similiar to what I do except my hard disk auto-boots so
the driver is run before /AUTO programs and not from /AUTO.
Ray
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