Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!ns-mx!umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu From: mtpins@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Firestar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: MSH Message-ID: <5330@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 5 Apr 91 19:59:35 GMT References: <1991Apr3.102919.6@ulkyvx.bitnet> Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Lines: 41 From article <1991Apr3.102919.6@ulkyvx.bitnet>, by jcjust01@ulkyvx.bitnet (J. Crazyrat Justen): > In article <17826@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, rblewitt@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (Richard Blewitt) writes: :> In article <1991Mar26.054601.4699@isc.rit.edu> gok0840a@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes: :>>I am having troubles installing messydos (MSH) onto my 3000. :>>I am using version 34.4, from comp.binaries.amiga (I think V90 or V91) :>>I have a section of my mountlist straight out of the sample mountlist :>>given with msh: :> :> [mountlist example deleted] :> :> At its best, MSH is very flaky on a 3000/2.0, in other words, don't :> use it. It hung my machine several times in the 1 hour I used it. :> Try CrossDOS 4.?? that works great, although you have to pay $30 to :> get a versiion that writes ms-dog disks. :> :> Rick > -- > > Get real!! MessyDOS is one of the BEST packages I have for the amiga, and > it was FREE. Don't waste your money and buy that stupid CrossDos package (I, > for one, did..and after using MessyDOS for the last year, I feel I was > ripped off!) To answer the original question: > > Check that sample mountlist entry that was included with the software. I > think you'll find that one of the left comment things were left off '/*' on > one of your comments. > You apparently have never tried it on an A3000. On my A2500, under 1.3, it worked beautifully. But it WILL NOT WRITE on an A3000 under 2.0. (And no one in their right mind is using 1.3 on an A3000). It will read, more or less, but it will hang if you try to write. Firestar -- ***************************************************************************** * Michael Pins (Firestar) | Internet: mtpins@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu * * ISCA's Amiga Librarian | #include * *****************************************************************************