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From: tba@pws.bull.com (Todd Aubin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MS-DOS disk formatting (was: Re: Amiga Minix 1.5 Answers)
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Date: 17 Oct 90 19:31:58 GMT
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edp367s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris) writes:

>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.

	I have an Amy 1000 with an external drive and a hard drive,
	along with a a Microbotics hard disk controller and 2.5 Meg
	of ram.

	I use "dos-2-dos". It works great!!!

	However, make sure that you always specify the drive name.
	For example, you must say: format df1:

	This might sound simplex to some, but bare in mind that dos-2-dos
	asks the user for the device name to be used for ALL dos-2-dos
	work. I answer df0:, lets say. Therefore I expect that when I
	say "format", it knows I mean df0:.  well, it don't.

	You have to say "format df0:" or sometimes you will get a 
	lock up.


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