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

You use the checkbox at the bottom of the tab to make the H: devices read only, as opposed to read/write.

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 fuctions 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 equivelents.  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 seperated 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 serched.