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From: bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: MSH cry for help!
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Date: 17 Nov 90 05:32:34 GMT
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Reply-To: bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Brian Heil)
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Well, I'm stumped!
I got the messydisk (msh) file-system from the fish disks and installed it
and mounted MSH:  No problems so far.  When I cd to the disk using SKsh
builtin cd I get an error [msh:: can't change to directory (8)] so I used
the cd command from a standard WB disk.  This works and I can read/write stuff
to this disk without problems.  The problem comes when I remove the msdos disk
from the drive (unit 1) and stick in an amigados disk.  The drive whirrs and
gronks (that's right I have a 1000 and I'm very attached to that gronking!) 
and I get a system requestor that says...
                      
                      Messydos volume
                      
                      has a Read or Write error
                      retry               cancel

hmph! something is not working right here!  If I select retry I get the
requestor back.  If I select cancel it goes away and the disk (an amiga disk
in df1:) is normal.  

Any body have a clue as to what's going on here (any body have the same thing
happpen to them)? 

here's the setup:
   A1000
   two floppies 
   1 meg memory
   KS 1.3 (34.5)
   WB 1.3 (34.20)
   SKsh 1.5
   ARP 39.1
the MSH release-notes are dated 11-FEB-90
my ms-dos disk was formatted on a real live ibm 3.5 drive (actually I've tried
this with several disks... one formatted on a PS/2 (blech), one on an NCR and
one formatted with messyformat).

Many thanks to Steve Koren for Sksh and Olaf Seibert for MSH (even though the
SKsh and MSH seem to argue about cd and I get this weird read/write error 
thing), and to anyone who can shed some light here!

Brian Heil                           )              University of Iowa
bheil@scout-po.biz.uiowa.edu         (      College of Business Administration
bheil@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu           )        Computing Services Organization
                      AMIGA   There is no substitute!