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From: donb@bushido.uucp (Donald Burnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amax II partition
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.160027.7180@bushido.uucp>
Date: 10 Oct 90 16:00:27 GMT
References: <9010091338.AA23337@terra.oscs.montana.edu>
Organization: Bushido Systems of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
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In article <9010091338.AA23337@terra.oscs.montana.edu> uphwk@terra.oscs.montana.edu (Bill Kinnersley) writes:
>[In "Amax II partition" <1990Oct3.121821.8760@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch>,
>      blatter@gorgo.ifi.unizh.ch (Martin Blatter) said:]
>:>
>:>AmigaDOS 2.0 automounts SCSI devices,
>:
>:Actually, that's not true. HDToolbox allows you to specify a partition as 
>:"not automounting". This option is hidden in the "Change File System" screen
>:in the "Advanced options" part of the "partition drive" section. Don't forget
>:to save the changes to the drive before leaving HDToolbox.
>:
>:But you'll have to create a mountlist in order to mount the A-MAX partition
>:before you run A-MAX. To do this, get a utility like "DosInfo" and run it
>:while the A-MAX partition is still automounted. Add the output to your
>:mountlist and create a script file that mounts the partition like that:
>:
>:mount AMAXWhatever: from devs:name_of_your_mountlist
>:
>
>Sounds good!  Where does one get DosInfo?  
>
>-- 
>--Bill Kinnersley
>  Physics Department   Montana State University    Bozeman, MT 59717
>  INTERNET: uphwk@terra.oscs.montana.edu      BITNET: UPHWK@MTSUNIX1
>226 Transfer complete.

Note: for all just reading this thread AmigaDOS with an A2091/a590 or
A3000 will automount PARTITIONS because these controllers know about
rigid disk blocks. AmigaDOS 2.0 will not necessarily automount partitions
on other controllers.

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