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Yaemon
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Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 40 |
1541 drive and Win XP
Ok I'm going nuts here. I'm trying to acces my 1541 drive with star commander under win xp. but I can't. I have unzipped the special drivers supposedly for win xp/2000/nt and there's one driver called user port. So I've followed the manual, copied the .sys file into the system32\drivers folder. I start the executable program and plunch in the driver details they want (port range), I start the driver and it says ok. No problems here. I go to a command prompt and type in the debug \\.\giveio command and I just leave it like that. I start up the Star Commander, but it just freezes. Do I have to wait a little longer or what can I do? I thank you in advance for helping me out! |
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Steppe
Registered: Jan 2002
Posts: 1510 |
No use wasting too much time on this, Yaemon. Too many people have tried and only a few have succeeded to get a stable transfer that way. :-(
And even if you manage to get SC to talk to your drive you still have to suffer from the occasional freeze, or seemingly successful transfers will produce bad disks or images.
Sorry for the discouraging posting, but I heard about a lot of people who tried this. That includes me, who could get it to work, but it freezed quite often, so the time spared rebooting the machine is quickly eliminated by closing and restarting Star Commander...
One thing that comes to mind, have you disabled the LPT port in the device manager? |
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JackAsser
Registered: Jun 2002
Posts: 1990 |
What really is required to get it to work under Win2K/XP is that someone writes a miniport driver on top of the parport driver. I started but it was really boring so I stopped. That is the only way IMO to get it really smooth in Win2K/XP. A bit like the Zip drives etc...
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Use PowerQuest BOOTmagic to make a small DOS 6.22 config, that works - but only if you have the correct PAR port.
I don't know, but my machine can't use X-1541, it has to use XE.
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drake
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Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 207 |
you better use windows '98 as its known that its almost impossible to get it work under 2k or xp. better buy a cheap 386 notebook to transfer files and to copy them. |
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Raf
Registered: Nov 2003
Posts: 343 |
IMO rather simple and efficent solution is to use DOS bootdisk and XE1541. my machine's LPT port doesn't accecpt x1541 but I've got another LPT on ISA so it works this way ;-) and I don't have to unplug printer each time I want to transfer data. |
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Yaemon
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Registered: Feb 2003
Posts: 40 |
I'm working on getting the PowerQuest program first, then I'll try the bootdisk, if I can find one. Thanks so far! |
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Scout
Registered: Dec 2002
Posts: 1568 |
I haven't tested it yet but there *IS* a Star Commander Windows NT/2000/XP tweak package.
You can download it here:
http://sta.c64.org/sc_winnt.zip
R.
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TDJ
Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1879 |
Hmm, would be great if I could get that to work, as I have an old ibm completely dedicated to transfering files now, and I could use the space it takes now.
edit: never mind .. reading through this thread I understand I have no chance in hell of getting it to work. Well, I'll replace the ibm with a laptop anyway later this week. |
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SIDWAVE
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Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2238 |
Yep, and that's the pack that gives people false hope that it will work. I guess 2/100 will work, the rest not.
DOS boot, from floppy or HD, and then 64HDD or Starcommander. And a FAT/FAT32 disk to use for saving, or 1.44 floppy.
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deizi
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Registered: May 2003
Posts: 95 |
why not use dual-boot (98+xshit) as i do? much easier. ok, the 98 is in its own HD (4gb), and the xp(40gb) in the other. :P works very well. |
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