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From: dac@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au (Andrew Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.introduction
Subject: Re: MSH and mountlists
Message-ID: <18d51537.ARN130e@prolix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 15 Mar 91 13:09:43 GMT
References: <1991Mar14.031705.143@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>
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In article <1991Mar14.031705.143@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu>, spice@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu writes:

> 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
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

GlobVec = -1, not '- 1'.

That might be the problem. 

Could also be a 68030 problem. I know that I have troubles if I'm in 68030
mode trying to read/write to MSH:

> 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.

It's not really 'amigados' that's at fault here, Scott. MSH isn't AmigaDos! :-)

Dac
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