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From: edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MS-DOS disk formatting (was: Re: Amiga Minix 1.5 Answers)
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.053413.25664@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 12 Oct 90 05:34:13 GMT
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vodall@hpfcso.HP.COM (Bill Vodall) writes:

>Yes.  The Amiga Minix runs on the 1000.  I received my copy last night.

>I did have to rebuild the boot disk as one of the critical files had
>a read error.  Fortunately a backup file was provided.

>There may be some other gotcha's (the MS-DOS format utility hangs) but so far
>it looks pretty good.

Unfortunately I haven't got my copy of Amiga Minix for my 1000 yet (it's
ordered), but I note with interest the remark about MS-DOS formatting.

I have tried many packages on the 1000 to try and format MS-DOS disk, and most
of them crash my Amiga.  Is this something that happens with the many amigas,
1000's only, or my 1000 only.  I didn't think much of it, until Bill mentioned
this about Minix.

Has anyone else had similar problems?

rik.
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