H: drive under MyDOS?

[Steve Mynott]

Is there anyway of accessing the host (H:) drive under emulation using MyDOS?

[+MrFish]

5 minutes ago, Steve Mynott said:

Is there anyway of accessing the host (H:) drive under emulation using MyDOS?

Worked right off for me (v4.53). What version of MyDOS are you trying to use?...and what emulator? (I'm using Altirra v4.01)

[Steve Mynott]

Oh it does work with the A option. I'm too used to using 1-8 and *

 

D'uh.

[+MrFish]

4 minutes ago, Steve Mynott said:

Oh it does work with the A option. I'm too used to using 1-8 and *

 

D'uh.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing at first too.

 

I went into BASIC and tried running and saving some files too (before I replied), which worked.

 

I figured everything should work, because it's DOS 2.x'ish, and I use that all the time.

 

[atarixle]

H: is a totally indepentend device and is in no way influenced by MyDOS or any other DOS (exept SpartaDOS which might map H: to D8: internally).

 

So H: should work in any DOS, but might not be supported by menu driven utilities as the output-format of DIR "H1:*.*" might variate from Emulator to Emulator, and differ from DOS.

Edited December 26, 2022 by atarixle

[Steve Mynott]

16 hours ago, atarixle said:

H: is a totally indepentend device and is in no way influenced by MyDOS or any other DOS (exept SpartaDOS which might map H: to D8: internally).

 

So H: should work in any DOS, but might not be supported by menu driven utilities as the output-format of DIR "H1:*.*" might variate from Emulator to Emulator, and differ from DOS.

SpartaDOS doesn't use H: for the host drive, it uses the PCL: device via PCLINK.

 

[+bf2k+]

2 hours ago, Steve Mynott said:

SpartaDOS doesn't use H: for the host drive, it uses the PCL: device via PCLINK.

 

You're talking about SpartaDOS X.

 

Earlier versions of SpartaDOS (3.x) use the H: device.