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CrossDOS Drivers

The standard DOS drivers for CrossDOS are PC0: and PC1; which correspond to DF0: and DF1:. These two drivers allow an Amiga floppy drive to read and write 720KB or 1.44MB MS-DOS disks, depending on the capacity of your Amiga disk drive.

Activating CrossDOS Drivers

You can activate a CrossDOS driver whenever you boot by moving the PF0/PC1 icon to DEVS:DOSDrivers. To temporarily activate a DOS driver, double-click on the icon in the Storage/DOSDrivers drawer. The DOS driver is activated until you reboot.

When you activate a CrossDOS driver, the Workbench displays two icons for any disk inserted in t he drive: one for PC0: or PC1: and one for the corresponding DF0: or DF1: drive. For an MS-DOS disk in DF0:; Workbench displays a special floppy disk icon with the disk's name and an icon labeled DF0:????. For an Amiga disk, Workbench shows the usual floppy icon and another labeled PC0:????.

Note:

When you insert a disk into a CrossDOS drive, there is normally a brief delay between the appearance of the DFx: disk icon and the PCx: disk icon.

When you open an MS-DOS disk, CrossDOS automatically displays its contents in Show All mode.

Adding CrossDOS Drivers

You can create additional DOS drivers if you have other drives with which you wish to use CrossDOS.

To create a PC2 DOS driver for an external DF2: floppy drive:

  1. If the PC0 icon is not already present in DEVS:DOSDrivers, open the Storage/DOSDrivers drawer and drag it onto DEVS:DOSDrivers.
  2. Open DEVS:DOSDrivers and select the PC0 icon.
  3. Select Copy from the Icons menu.
  4. Select Rename from the Icons menu. Change the name of the copied icon from copy_of_PC0 to PC2 and select OK.
  5. Select Information from the Icons menu, change the UNIT Tool Type from UNIT=0 to UNIT=2, and press Return.
  6. Select Save.

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