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From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Mountlist trouble
Keywords: mount why cd.
Message-ID: <6R6Xq9w163w@valnet>
Date: 12 Oct 90 22:05:40 GMT
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ead@cbnewsd.att.com (eric.a.duesing) writes:

> 
> Why do I have to cd to a new device before it mounts?  Is there some
> way of getting ride of this?  It happens to me when my harddrive mounts
> using binddrivers, all of the partitions are not mounted until
> I 'cd' to them.  
> 
> 
> 			Eric A. Duesing
> 			
> 			

You don't have to 'cd' to them. You just have to use them somehow. The 
first dir, or file transfer, etc, activates it, unless it's a SCSI hard 
drive under OS 2.0 where it automounts.

-Joseph Hillenburg

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