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From: johnj@osiris.UUCP (John Johnston johnj@welch.jhu.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Problem "cannot load handler" when formatting FFS partitions
Keywords: grrrr....
Message-ID: <2911@osiris.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 89 00:53:42 GMT
Reply-To: mjr@welch.jhu.edu
Organization: Johns Hopkins Hospital
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	I'm having an odd problem trying to format some of the partitions
on my (SCSI) WrenIII drive. I have mountlist entries made as per manual,
hddisk.device and hddisk.info and such in expansion (done by the HDinstall
program) but when I try to format my 3rd FFS partition it pukes something 
like:

format dh2:
(works)

mount bin:
format drive bin: name Bin 
(works)

mount usr:
format drive usr: name Usr
(works)

mount tmp:
format drive tmp: name Tmp
 -format failed
 cannot find handler


	Any ideas ? I have copied this stuff right out of the manual. I tried
running this booted off a floppy, too. I had binddrivers, and all that the
system-startup.hd run. It's odd - I tried rebooting and formatting tmp:
without mounting the other partitons - same thing. Nothing in the manual
about this, of course.

	Boy, I have to admit - for such a nice machine, the documentation
is pretty crappy. It's really a crying shame.

	--mjr();