Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!midway!gargoyle!igloo!ddsw1!corpane!sparks From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MSH cry for help! Message-ID: <3671@corpane.UUCP> Date: 20 Nov 90 18:41:33 GMT References: <26992.27451cc3@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <3244@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Organization: Corpane Industries Inc., Louisville, KY Lines: 49 phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au (Phil Kernick) writes: >Yes and no. I have cross-dos 4.0 >If you insert an MS-DOS volume in a drive it is accessed correctly. >If you remove it and replace it with an Amiga-DOS volume, everything works. >If you insert an MS-DOS volume, remove it, and replace it with *another* >MS-DOS volume, you get a: > Disk removed to soon > Data may be corrupted > Please replace volume > Retry Cancel >requestor most of the time - but not always! I just cancel them and they >go away cleanly. I have the read only demo version of Crossdos and have never had that problem. I usually grab stuff from comp.binaries.amiga at work, copy it to several MSDOS diskettes and take them home and use Crossdos to copy them to amiga disks (actually, I just unpack them directly from the disk using Zoo or Lharc). So I am constantly switching disks and I have never gotten a requestor like you mention above. I would figure that the full blown version of crossdos would be at least as hardy as the demo version. >CrossDos also works perfectly with SKsh (thanks Steve, great shell!). >For US$19, go and buy CrossDos. I got it from MicroMega, La Mesa, Ca. Try Crossdos without SKsh and see if it still gives you the requestors. The only flakey thing I have found with my version of crossdos is when using a similar shell like program. Shell 4.01. whenever I use Shell 4.01 to do a DIR on the msdos floppy, it kicks up a requestor saying 'Volume is write protected, retry cancel'. It doesn't do this when not using the Shell. Maybe your problem is a similar one. After I click cancel, it goes ahead and prints the directory. And before any one writes me to tell me that my dir command might have a virus attached to it that is trying to write to the MSDOS floppy.. I don't think so: The dir command is built into the shell itself and it is the only command that seems to kick up the requestor, and it doesn't kick up a requestor on write-protected Amigados floppies -- John Sparks |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User Games, Email sparks@corpane.UUCP |PH: (502) 968-DISK 24Hrs/2400BPS | Usenet, Chatting, =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-|7 line Multi-User system. | Downloads & more. A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of----Ogden Nash