Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!udel!sbcs!csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu!dtiberio From: dtiberio@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Fastfile system? Why use on RAD: and 5.25? Keywords: rad: FFS, why Message-ID: <1991Feb7.225902.23537@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Date: 7 Feb 91 22:59:02 GMT References: <1052@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> <1991Feb6.190059.5507@zoot.avgrp.cr.rok.com> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook Lines: 25 In article yorkw@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Willis F York) writes: >> Has anyone setup their Amiga to read either FFS or OFS disks from the floppy >>drives? I am thinking about doing this but have not tried anything yet. >>(Better yet has anyone tried to do MSH, FFS, and OFS from floppies... That way >>you could read whatever disk was in the drive. Also you don't have to worry >>about labeling the disks with the format.) > >I saw a Program to do that when 1.3 came out... But lost it... >mounted the floppies as ff1: and ff2: > >I'd like to have it again if i can find it.... >. A couple of days ago I made an FFS with RAD: (880k). It seems like it may have sped it up a little bit, but I made no performance testing. Second, I am not sure if it really is FFS. I had a few errors, and sometimes when it boots it says "df0: not a dos disk", which it is. Is there a way to boot from RAD: without a disk in the drive? > >-- >yorkw@ecn.purdue.edu Willis F York says: > IF ya meat an Amiga Owner that says: "I got my amiga Just to play games...: >there's only one thing to do... >Give him a Boot to the head... Then repeat .... Then repeat...