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From: davidb@hplsla.HP.COM (David Bakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cross-Dos and Messy-Dos
Message-ID: <5160099@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 26 May 90 18:23:59 GMT
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>/ hplsla:comp.sys.amiga / monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) /  9:20 am  May 25, 1990 /
>In article <20196@snow-white.udel.EDU> GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig) writes:
>>
>>     I got CrossDOS to install properly the first try.  I tried to
>> use MSH because it will write and I heard was much faster, but I
>> couldn't get it to work.  It would mount, but wouldn't work if I
>> tried to CD to it.  Says insufficient free store or some such
>> crap.  I have 1 meg.
>>
>	I hope you are not trying to imply that CrossDos will not write
>to a dos disk, becasue if you are you are way off. Not only can you read
>and write tranparently you can also format dos disks. One funny thing is
>I have a 3 1/2 drive in my XT and I can not format a 720k disk on it. I
>can read and write to them, but It will only format a 360k 3 1/2!! I format
>all of my disks om AMI that I use in my XT :) (Something about my xt's 
>controller doesn't know how to format 720K).
>	CrossDos is great. It is real neat to access a dos disk by simply
        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I agree completely!  I'm sure messy dos works too but I like support and have
had none of the problems anyone has mentioned.

>calling it "A:". I read and write to dos disks all of the time. I also haven't
>found an application yet that is unhappy with it either. There is one quirk
>though that you have to explicitly access the DOS drive before most applications
>know it's there i.e. cd to A: etc. After that there is no problem.
As regards to this problem.  Check your mount file description.  There is
a way to specify that the driver be loaded automatically instead of at the
first access.  I'm at work now so I can't check what the correct value is
exactly, but I could check if you can't find it.  After you set that mount
the device and you're in business!
>
>Monty Saine
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David Bakeman