Atari800MacX Help
Preferences Window
Hard Drives Tab



This tab allows you to set the directories used by the emulator for the Hard Disk Device Emulator, H: , and for the newly added (version 4.0 and later) D: patch emulator, which uses some of the same directories used for H:.



There are four directories, and they are mapped to devices as follows:

The D: patch used D5-D8 as Hard Disk drives, which use the same directories as some of the H: devices.  The mapping is as follows:
You use the checkbox at the bottom of the tab to make the H: devices read only, as opposed to read/write.  D: devices are also made read only using the same checkbox.

The new D: patch has the advantage that it works in many programs that will not support H:, but only recognize D: devices, such as Action!.  It is also fully compatible with MyDos, including the default directory which can be accessed as D:.  The patch is dynamic, and reinstalls itself whenever the DOS overwrites it.  It does require a DOS, however, and will not work without a DOS as H: will.

Starting in version 1.1, Atari800MacX supports all normal DOS functions for the hard drives, including Rename, Delete, Note, Point, and Open for modify (read/write).  One caveat is that all file names created from the Mac side should be lower case.  

Starting in version 1.2, Atari800MacX supports subdirectories on the hard drives.

Note, the Delete function will not work on Hard Drives from the Atari DOS 2.x or MYDOS menus, as they do not recognize Hx: as a drive.  However, the XIO functions will work to delete.

All file and Directory functions are supported by SpartaDos or BWDos from the command line, as well as from their XIO equivalents.  Binary Load (with all options) will also work with MYDOS and its XIO equivelents.  

Also, there is a capability to specify a Command Path for use with SpartaDos and BW-DOS when issuing command from the Hx: prompt.  The normal path used with Dx: drives will not work, as this is part of the driver for the Dx: devices in the DOS.  The paths specified here are separated by semicolons, and may include the normal directory seperator character ('>'').  The path defaults to "H1:>DOS;>DOS".  This means that the "DOS" directory on Hard Drive 1 will be searched for the command, then the "DOS" directory on the current drive, then finally the current directory will be searched.