pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Given the obvious utility of having FATFS.SYS on CAR:, I must assume there is a good reason for why it is not there. Is it possible, however, to have a utility on CAR: that would write FATFS.SYS out to a drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peri Noid Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Can't you just copy it from CAR: to anywhere you want? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 9 minutes ago, Peri Noid said: Can't you just copy it from CAR: to anywhere you want? It's not on CAR:. And no, you can't copy from CAR: to disk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peri Noid Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 (edited) It is not but that's where you'd like it to be. Let's assume, it is there. then - you are wrong, you CAN copy from CAR: to a disk - you just need to do it properly, as it's described in the SDX docs: TYPE CAR:FATFS.SYS >>C:FATFS.SYS (or something like this) Here we have a topic on this: Edited December 19, 2022 by Peri Noid 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 I didn't know that about using TYPE! Good info! I wonder if that means that if I could get FATFS.SYS into the SDX CAR: image, I would have a single-device solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peri Noid Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 (edited) And why cannot you ryn FATFS.SYS from CAR: and you need to copy it to any drive instead? Other device drivers are loaded this way. Why not this one? Edited December 19, 2022 by Peri Noid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 (edited) That's a question for FJC to answer. All I know is that it is not there and that there is quite a bit of past forum discussion supporting my understanding that it is not there because it cannot be run from there. Possible I misunderstood it, but I don't think that's the case. Given the incredible convenience that having it there and available for a simple TYPE command to copy it onto a disk, I would be shocked to find out FJC hadn't thought of it sooner. I've read him field several questions about how to get the desired effect and never once solution his way in that direction. Edited December 19, 2022 by pixelmischief Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 You can put FATFS.SYS on CAR and run it directly from that location, AFAIK. I can see no reason why not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 Just now, flashjazzcat said: You can put FATFS.SYS on CAR and run it directly from that location, AFAIK. I can see no reason why not. Why is not included in the SIDE3 SDX ROM image? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 1 minute ago, pixelmischief said: Why is not included in the SIDE3 SDX ROM image? No idea. There are many drivers not included there for reasons of space conservation on CAR: and/or the fact they're specialised. You might as well ask why the entire content of the SDX toolkit disk isn't on CAR: when most of the tools generally end up on the SDFS boot partition of the user's hard disk. Not that I'm sure why this is a question for me to answer, however, since I don't maintain SDX and did not write FATFS.SYS. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 I guess this ROM customizer is the answer: https://sdx.atari8.info/index.php?show=en_addons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashjazzcat Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Correct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 Just now, flashjazzcat said: No idea. There are many drivers not included there for reasons of space conservation on CAR: and/or the fact they're specialised. You might as well ask why the entire content of the SDX toolkit disk isn't on CAR: when most of the tools generally end up on the SDFS boot partition of the user's hard disk. Not that I'm sure why this is a question for me to answer, however, since I don't maintain SDX and did not write FATFS.SYS. Oh! My apologies! I thought you were the coder on that stuff. Lord knows you write everything else...ish. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 1 minute ago, flashjazzcat said: Correct. I don't see that it has a SIDE3 option. Am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmischief Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 Just now, pixelmischief said: I don't see that it has a SIDE3 option. Am I missing something? My bad. Again. It was the download compositor that doesn't seem to have a SIDE3 option -> https://sdx.atari8.info/index.php?show=en_download_release I've downloaded the Windows tool and will give it a go. Thanks for the patient advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TGB1718 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 32 minutes ago, flashjazzcat said: Not that I'm sure why this is a question for me to answer, however, since I don't maintain SDX and did not write FATFS.SYS. Yes, but your "The Man" 😍 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mclaneinc Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 What? He's the Big Lebowski?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
_The Doctor__ Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 more than one fat driver in sdx tools, pick the one you want and add it using the imager utility then flash device with the resulting image Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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