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From: spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: MSH and mountlists
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.031705.143@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 08:17:05 GMT
Organization: Computer Club, Carnegie-Mellon University
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I'm a new Amiga owner and am having trouble getting the shareware program
MSH to work on my A3000 under AmigaDos 1.3. I moved the files 
MessyFileSystem to my L: directory and the file messydisk.device to
my devs: directory as is shown in the sample mountlist given in the 
MSH archive. My mountlist entry for MSH: is as follows

MSH:  FileSystem = l:MessyFileSystem
      Device = devs:messydisk.device
      Unit = 0
      Flags = 0
      LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 79
      Surfaces = 2
      BlocksPerTrack = 9
      Buffers = 5
      BufMemType = 1
      BootPri = 0
      Stacksize = 4096
      Priority = 5
      GlobVec = - 1


The only values changed from the sample mountlist in MSH are
the value for Unit which I changed from 1 to 0 since I only have one
floppy drive. I also changed the pathname for the FileSystem variable 
from FileSystem = messydos:l/MessyFileSystem and changed the pathname
of the Device variable from Device = messydos:devs/messydisk.device

I made the changes in the FileSystem and Device pathnames because I was
getting requestors asking me to insert "messydos" into any drive. I
couldnt find any file named messydos in the MSH archive and when I made 
the changes I stopped getting the requestors. I added the command 
mount MSH: to my startup-sequence in s: directory. My startup-sequence
is as follows

c:SetPatch >NIL: r
Addbuffers df0: 10
cd c:
echo "Amiga Workbench Disk, Release 1.3.2 version 34.32"
Sys:System/FastMemFirst
Binddrivers
FF >NIL: -0
resident CLI L:Shell-Seg SYSTEM pure add
resident c:Execute pure
mount MSH:
mount newcon
;
failat 11
run execute s:StartupII
wait >NIL: 5 mins
SYS:System/SetMap usa1
path ram: c: sys:utilities sys:system s: sys:prefs add
LoadWB delay
endcli > NIL:


This is the exact same startup sequence as comes with AmigaDos 1.3 except for 
the addition of the mount MSH command.

I dont get any errors when booting AmigaDos 1.3 on my A3000 with this 
startup-sequence and mountlist. When I insert a MSDOS disk into DF0: I get
a DF0:BAD message on the WorkBench screen. When I launch a CLI and type  
dir MSH: the drive comes on and sometimes I get a few mangled letters 
printed on the screen. At other times I dont get anything at all , just a
blank screen. If I type dir MSH: a second time the drive light doesnt 
even come on and nothing is output. I've tried the command cd MSH: also 
and I cant get that to work either. A second disk icon is put onto the
Workbench screen after I type dir MSH: but this disk icon doesnt have 
a name. 

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong and explain in to me in nice simple
terms? I'm new to the Amiga and dont know much about it and the Commodore
manuals arent very informative about AmigaDos.
 


                  Thanks
                    Scott Corley