Copper Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 (edited) My next question is how can I access the mounted H1-H4 HDDs (which point to folders on my Mac) from SpartaDOS? H: Patch is activated When I try to access eg H1: I get an error 130 Edited February 6, 2021 by Copper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Did you set the paths for the HDDs in the "Hard Drives" tab? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 You can't access the host device or any other CIO device directly from the SpartaDOS X command line, since it uses its own kernel device names (CON: for the screen, etc). You'll need to wait for SIO level host emulation in the emulator. A better SDX alternative which should work right now is PCLINK, which allows access to (in this case) the host OS filesystem via the PCL: device. See the SDX toolkit for details. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+skr Posted February 6, 2021 Share Posted February 6, 2021 Oh, I din´t see he´s talking SDX. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 17 minutes ago, skr said: Oh, I din´t see he´s talking SDX. Sorry. Which DOS will work to access the H* device? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 Probably anything but SDX, but wildcard support may be patchy. Try PCLINK, though. It's supported by Atari800MacX and is great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 31 minutes ago, skr said: Did you set the paths for the HDDs in the "Hard Drives" tab? 25 minutes ago, flashjazzcat said: You can't access the host device or any other CIO device directly from the SpartaDOS X command line, ... A better SDX alternative which should work right now is PCLINK, which allows access to ... Thank you, I‘ll give that a try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 14 hours ago, flashjazzcat said: Probably anything but SDX, but wildcard support may be patchy. Try PCLINK, though. It's supported by Atari800MacX and is great. Once again Jon, you mention something that's a gem, I've been struggling with copying files I build onto my 800 and 130XE and was thinking of writing something to do file transfer as swapping out SD cards back and forth was getting a pain. I have a few Raspberry Pi's so I compiled the SIO2BSD files, installed and pointed to a directory, then shared that directory and mounted it on my PC, the 800 saw the directory as a HD straight away and now I can copy files back and forth with ease. My life just became much easier ? Maybe next time I should read the SDX manual ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Copper Posted February 7, 2021 Author Share Posted February 7, 2021 18 hours ago, flashjazzcat said: Probably anything but SDX, but wildcard support may be patchy. Try PCLINK, though. It's supported by Atari800MacX and is great. PCLink works great, indeed. Thanks again. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarixle Posted February 7, 2021 Share Posted February 7, 2021 19 hours ago, Copper said: Which DOS will work to access the H* device? Additionally, a little technical info: H: is completely indipendent from DOS. DOS creates the D-device. The H-device, provided by the Emulator, is a total different device and runs even without a DOS loaded. H: even works diffetently on different emulators, e.g. in Atari800Win you get full access to Windows long filenames. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atarixle Posted March 8, 2021 Share Posted March 8, 2021 Look at http://www.sdx.atari8.info/index.php?show=en_addons there is an Add-On called Emu-Pack 0.2: "access emulator's "H:" device from COMMAND.COM." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmmx Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 On 2/6/2021 at 5:39 PM, skr said: Did you set the paths for the HDDs in the "Hard Drives" tab? Hi, Can someone help me understand how to use the D-device? I can get results like the one shown using the H-device. However I cannot get the D-device to work. For instance the command ENTER "D5:HELLO.BAS" results in a 130 error, while the command ENTER "H1:HELLO.BAS" works fine. I also cannot access D-device drives from MyDos (v 4.50). When I try to get a disk directory of D5:*.* it results in a 163 error. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 So according to Page 6 issue 22: Error-163 Unrecoverable system data I/O error. This error appears to act a, a catch-all for any I/O error not covered by the other I/O error codes, and for which the cause cannot be determined. It appears to be a very rare error. Suggested causes are malfunctioning equipment, corrupted DOS, and damaged disks (though there are presumably others). Are you trying to emulate a real drive without it's ROM? Also could it be a corrupted disk image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 silly question.. but do you have media in the floppy slots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmmx Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 (edited) In the Atari800MacX preferences - on the Hard Drive tab I have H1: set to use a directory on my Mac (/Users/dmmx/workspaces/atari_ws/8-bit/HD1) then on the Atari tab I have both the Enable H: Patch and Enable D : Patch checked on I then load an atr image of MyDOS into Drive 1. I can get a directory listing of D1, but not D5. Edited April 9, 2021 by dmmx D: kept changing to emoji Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 What version of atari800macx? Some versions disabled d patch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmmx Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 I am using version 6.0.0 that came out on 2021-01-18. It looks like the issue was fixed in version 5.4.1: >> Fixed issue with D Patch which was introduced in version 5.3.0 And that it had previously been disabled in version 5.3.1 >> Disabled D Patch for this version, as it is not functioning with the new atari800 core. It will be readded in a future version. Does anyone have this working? If so what version of Atari800MacX are you using? What version of MyDOS? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Nelson Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 On 3/8/2021 at 12:46 AM, atarixle said: Look at http://www.sdx.atari8.info/index.php?show=en_addons there is an Add-On called Emu-Pack 0.2: "access emulator's "H:" device from COMMAND.COM." Thank you very much, Atari XLE. The Emu-Pack add-on worked. It took a while to figure out how to unpack the "arc" file and then read the help text. But eventually I did. I keep the files on my D1 (or A) drive. I then added PATH A:>;CAR: to my AUTOEXEC.BAT file so it would work called from any drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bf2k+ Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 On 2/6/2021 at 7:09 PM, Copper said: Which DOS will work to access the H* device? SD3.x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted October 28, 2023 Share Posted October 28, 2023 On 2/6/2021 at 7:12 PM, flashjazzcat said: Probably anything but SDX, but wildcard support may be patchy. Try PCLINK, though. It's supported by Atari800MacX and is great. ^this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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