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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hard drive formatting failure
Summary: Check for lower case
Message-ID: <862@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 89 02:12:34 GMT
References: <668@alias.UUCP>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA
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In article <668@alias.UUCP> kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates) writes:
>The second and subsequent partitions are set to use the FastFileSystem.
>When I try to format them I get the error "Format failed.  Handler not
>found.".  I have checked with the local computer store and Commodore in

For devices, three things must match exactly.  The name in the mountlist,
the name in the DEVS: directory, and the name stored internal to the
device handler itself.  While AmigaDOS as a whole treats uppercase and
lowercase the same in file names, the devices are an execption.

You can use "type devs:hddrive.device hex" to verify the internal name.
Check the mountlist entry and the file name match exactly, including
capitalization.  Also, make sure L:FastFileSystem exists with the right
name and is available at mount time.
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