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From: yarnall@usceast.UUCP (Ken Yarnall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Question on FFS on Floppy Drives on A3000.
Summary: Can too use FFS on my 2500!
Keywords: FFS
Message-ID: <3419@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 90 19:55:07 GMT
References: <1122@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> <1990Aug25.064001.25017@fs-1.iastate.edu>
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Organization: Math Department, University of South Carolina (ahem; The USC)
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In article <1990Aug25.064001.25017@fs-1.iastate.edu> skank@iastate.edu (Skank George L) writes:
+In article <1122@orange9.qtp.ufl.edu> sutherla@qtp.ufl.edu (Scott Sutherland) writes:
+>
+>	I have seen a couple of postings to this group stating how
+>to format a floppy disk under the fast file system (FFS) on an
+>A3000.  Can anyone tell me where in the manuals that come with the
+>A3000 I can find this information?
+>
+>BTW, if I have a FFS formatted floppy and I take it to an A2000, can
+>it be read?  
+
+     Unless I'm seriously mistaken FFS is the default file system on the A3000,
+in which case complete instructions are given on pages 1-36 through 1-38 of the
+Using System Software manual.  Disks formatted under FFS may NOT be used on an
+A2000 or A500 until the 2.0 upgrade is available for those machines.  To my
+knowledge this information is not printed in the manual (I haven't finished
+reading it though), however, I think I saw it on one or the enclosed erata
+sheets.

Hmmmmm.  That's pretty interesting, since I've been using FFS formated
floppies on my 2500 since I got it.  Just need an appropriate mountlist entry
for a new device, say called ff0:, that implements the FFS.  If you want to
be slick, you can use a program like AutoDiskChange, that alerts the OS when
you pop the FFS floppy out.

+
+                                          George

kenny
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