Starman Posted April 9, 2017 Share Posted April 9, 2017 (edited) Hi all, I'm trying to use Altirra to take the floppies I've been archiving and moving them out of the Atari ecosystem and onto a hard drive by using drives mapped to folders on my Windows hard drive. In doing so, I'm trying to copy files to D3:, where D3 is mapped to a folder. D1 is the OS 2.0S disk, and D2 is whatever source disk I'm trying to copy from. I can access D1 and D2 fine, but anything D3 and above returns ERROR 160 when doing something like a directory listing. I found some docs showing how to test if you have the right number of drives reported by the OS and that's correct, so I'm at a loss here. The goal here is to copy all the individual files that can be copied (eg: .XEX and personal files) onto something that's not in a .ATR file - I want to get these files out of an Atari ecosystem. So I tried using the H: method since it works fine on my Mac using Atari800MacX. Altirra can see the H: drive, and if I boot into BASIC, I can even write a BASIC program and save it using "SAVE H:TEST.BAS" and it works, but if I use DOS and COPY a file such as AUTORUN.SYS to H:, I get error 150. I have no problems with this kind of setup using Atari800MacX so I must be doing something wrong with Altirra. EDIT: I found that DOS needed to be modified to see 3 floppy drives. I never knew this. Also, the original page I found had incorrect values for what PEEK(1802) should return. Instructions are here: http://www.atarimania.com/faq-atari-400-800-xl-xe-how-do-i-modify-atari-dos-to-support-more-than-two-drives_62.html EDIT2: It's been SO long (30 years) since I did a disk copy, that I didn't realize that you had to type out the EXPLICIT filename for the destination, not just H:. Working now. Keeping this post here in case anyone else has the same problems. Edited April 9, 2017 by Starman 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mirao Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Quote EDIT: I found that DOS needed to be modified to see 3 floppy drives. I never knew this. Also, the original page I found had incorrect values for what PEEK(1802) should return. Instructions are here: Thanks for the info, I just was wondering why in Altirra the drive D3 doesn't work in DOS 2.5 😀. Finally I found out a HOWTO here: https://www.atariarchives.org/mapping/memorymap.php#1802 It can be also setup by the tool SETUP.COM provided by DOS 2.5 (see http://www.atarimania.com/documents/Atari DOS 2.5 - 1050 Disk Drive Owner's Manual.pdf, APPENDIX L, The DOS 2.5 disk utilities) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sl0re Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 The old ms dos wildcard works in the dos's I used. So for destination you can just do driveletter: *.* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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