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From: rhialto@cs.kun.nl (Olaf Seibert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Janus Drive/Network Drive?
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Date: 15 Nov 90 18:44:27 GMT
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In article <53998.658627545@atronx.UUCP> rwm@atronx.UUCP (Russell McOrmond) writes:
>Hi,
>
>  I have run into a situation where I will need to 'mount' a filesystem that is
>accessable to both a Bridgeboard and to AmigaDos.  I see there to be so far two
>ways to do this:
>
> First (And I think Easiest) would be to find out how to access the File created
>by MakeAB and make a handler for the Amiga that could do very simple 
>operations (dir/Open/write/read/close).
[second idea deleted]
>  Has any work already been done by anyone on eithor of the Above? Is there a
>solution to my problems with present software?

I think it is possible to do the following, if I understand correctly that
the "File" you mention is the file that contains the filesystem that is
accessed from the bridgeboard as if it were a disk.

1. You already can access it from the bridgeboard.

2. To access it from the Amiga, you need:
   2a. fmsdisk.device, by Matt Dillon.  (Available on a Fish disk,
       if I am not mistaking.
   2b. MSH, by me. (Fish disk #382)

Fmsdisk.device makes a file look like a .device, so you can use MSH
to access the File through it. Let's hope that the File just consists
of the sequence of bytes that are contained in the sectors of the
emulated disk, or it won't work. You must change the Mountlist entry
for MSH so that it uses fmsdisk.device instead of messydisk.device,
of course.

Note: I haven't tried it. I don't like those messy machines.

>  Russell McOrmond   rwm@atronx.UUCP   {fts1,alzabo}!atronx!rwm 
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Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                               rhialto@cs.kun.nl
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