Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!i2unix!corton!chorus!ferry From: ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations Subject: Msh (messydos) problem/Corrupts disks Message-ID: <8137@chorus.fr> Date: 7 Mar 91 12:22:33 GMT Sender: news@chorus.fr Lines: 40 Hello amiga-netters, I have a problem with using messydos, if anybody has had this problem and/or knows how to solve it I'd like to get an e-mail responce from you. (I'll post a summary for the net if enough information is sent.) System setup: A-1000 512KBytes MessyDOS V34.8/1.30 (according manual) Kick&Work V1.3 I have installed a messydos device called DFB: on drive DF1: using the mountlist parameters given in the first to examples of the mountlist that comes with messydos. Whenever I format a disk using the messyformat program (Using all default value's and the option for formatting the whole disk!) and I copy a lot of files on that disk (copy df0: dfb: all), the disk is NOT A DOS-DISK after I eject and re-insert it. After the copy, the list dfb: command shows the contents of the disk as expected but doesn't actually read the disk. (Chached the dir in the 5 assigned buffers?) If I eject and re-insert the disk messydos doesn't recognize the disk and it is marked as Unreadable disk in the ouput of info dfb:. An other problem that occures sometimes is that I write a lot of files to a new formatted messydos disk (same way) and that the directory-structure is corrupted. (Files with sizes of several MBytes and names of files that are actually the contents of a data-file on that disk..) My question: Is this a problem with messyformat or messydos-device? How do I solve it? How robust is messydos? (Full disks,partially corrupted disks) Thanks for your e-mail response, -- Ferry de Jong switchboard:+33 (1) 30.64.82.00 Chorus systemes direct: +33 (1) 30.64.82.73 6, avenue Gustave-Eiffel fax: +33 (1) 30.57.00.66 78182, St-Quentin-en-Yvelines CEDEX e-mail: ferry@chorus.fr FRANCE or ferry%chorus.fr@mcsun.EU.net