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BBAN GEMDOS support
Posted: 22 Sep 2026 05:04
by tikidays
Hi guys, just bought a BBAN off EXXOS, plugged in booted perfectly of the ACSI supplied SD card, brilliant. But I dont understand how to get the FAT32 formatted SD card in slot 0 recognised via GEMDOS, I want to be able to mount this on my Mac or PC and copy over MBs of data. All the searching I've done suggests that BBAN should automatically detect this SD card and mount it on GEM desktop automatically. Ive tried GEMDRIVE.PRG but that states no GEM DEVICE found. What am I missing?
Re: BBAN GEMDOS support
Posted: 22 Sep 2026 07:29
by dad664npc
tikidays wrote: 22 Sep 2026 05:04
Hi guys, just bought a BBAN off EXXOS, plugged in booted perfectly of the ACSI supplied SD card, brilliant. But I dont understand how to get the FAT32 formatted SD card in slot 0 recognised via GEMDOS, I want to be able to mount this on my Mac or PC and copy over MBs of data. All the searching I've done suggests that BBAN should automatically detect this SD card and mount it on GEM desktop automatically. Ive tried GEMDRIVE.PRG but that states no GEM DEVICE found. What am I missing?
For GEM, If you are not using a driver, then you need emutos rom, else you need HDDRIVER or similar
Re: BBAN GEMDOS support
Posted: 22 Sep 2026 23:24
by tikidays
Thanks @dad664npc that put me on the right path, I tried to install EmuTOS 1.4 (INSTALLER.PRG, EMUTOSUK.PRG) on to the C drive on the supplied ACSI SD but that resulted in a panic error on startup, it also removed the ICD driver and broke boot up off the HD. So I re-imaged the SD drive back to its default image and its back to booting again.
The FAT32 SD drive is now seen if I boot from EMUTOS off floppy, but when I try to open the drive nothing happens, no window opens.
Re: BBAN GEMDOS support
Posted: 22 Sep 2026 23:40
by exxos
Does GEM even support FAT32 ? I don't think it does ?
Id suggest a FAT16 format and 512MB partition and id assume EMUTOS would pick it up..
Re: BBAN GEMDOS support
Posted: 23 Sep 2026 02:55
by tikidays
Thanks @exxos that was certainly the issue, I missed seeing any where it needed to be FAT16 and 2GB partitions. Worked perfectly with EMUTOS 1.4 booting off floppy. I tried redownloading the EMUTOSUK.PRG (256K for my Ste) just in case there was corruption , this produced a new Panic, 2074. I then ran the same installer again and this time it worked, must have been a corruption some where. I have a confused face now, but happy.