XControl + Ghostlink = headscratching

[Dr Do]

I've now acquired a null modem cable to connect my STe up to the PC, and have been playing around with Ghostlink. I didn't get very far with it until I discovered that I needed XControl.acc and the relevant .cpx file. Now that I've got those, the PC-ST link is up and running. Well, kind of...there's a few aspects of the setup which are causing me problems, so was wondering whether your good selves might have some solutions.

 

[Just before I start - I'm using Ghostlink 1.0 Beta. The STe has a single floppy drive (A:), with a mapping on the desktop to a second, but non-existent, drive (B:). The PC has a floppy drive, hard drives and a CD drive, and is running Windows XP]

 

1. With Ghostlink installed and the PC mapped to C: on the STe, XControl appears to become muddled over its drive allocation. Instead of A:, which is where it will find a floppy disk with the .cpx files in addition to the XControl.acc file from which it installed, it instead insists on defaulting to C:. When it finds nothing there, it hangs. After repeated Ctrl-Shift-Alt commands I'm eventually able to redirect it to the relevant folder on A: and all is well - but when I attempt to save the new setting, I just get "File I/O error", and so instead have to go through the whole rigmarole again when I restart the machine.

 

2. At first, the "Hard Drive" that represents C: doesn't appear on the desktop - by trial and error, I've discovered that to make it appear, I have to shutdown the desktop and then change the screen resolution from low to medium. How inriguing.

 

3. With the slave file running in the PC's MS-DOS terminal, the only drive that is accessible from C: is the PC's floppy disk drive - the hard drives and CD drive don't appear. This despite me selecting "all drives" in the Ghostlink setup function. While gaining access to one drive is better than gaining access to none at all, I can't help feeling that this renders the whole exercise a little pointless, as it means I still have to write files from the PC to a floppy disk prior to transfer. I may as well just dispense with he lead and put the disk straight into the ST!

 

Anyone got any ideas as to what I should be doing to get it running properly?

Edited September 5, 2012 by Dr Do

[Dr Do]

Re my last post - where I said "shutdown the desktop", I meant to say shutdown the ST's control panel.

[Charlie_]

 

2. At first, the "Hard Drive" that represents C: doesn't appear on the desktop - by trial and error, I've discovered that to make it appear, I have to shutdown the desktop and then change the screen resolution from low to medium. How inriguing.

 

 

In TOS 1.62 you have to highlight a drive on the desktop, go to options, install disk drive.

Do this after pressing install in GHOSTLINK. Backspace over the Drive letter the install disk drive dialog has and give it the drive letter you set in GHOSTLINK setup.

 

Also in Ghostlink, try to not use the "all available drives" option and do a direct map to c: or a: on the PC.

[Dr Do]

In TOS 1.62 you have to highlight a drive on the desktop, go to options, install disk drive.

Do this after pressing install in GHOSTLINK. Backspace over the Drive letter the install disk drive dialog has and give it the drive letter you set in GHOSTLINK setup.

 

Also in Ghostlink, try to not use the "all available drives" option and do a direct map to c: or a: on the PC.

 

That appears to have sorted it out - thanks.

Edited September 9, 2012 by Dr Do