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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
Subject: Re: MSH on A3000
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.190040.25435@cs.cornell.edu>
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Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1991 19:00:40 GMT
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In article <47934@ut-emx.uucp> mjl@ut-emx.uucp (Maurice LeBrun) writes:
[...]
>Symptoms:
> - Seems to mount ok ('mount msh:').
> - When I try 'messyfmt 0', I use all the defaults, then the drive light comes
>   on and stays on, with nothing happening.
>
>I haven't tried r/w from an already formatted MS-DOS floppy (I don't have
>any; the workstation here has a problem formatting but can r/w MS-DOS
>floppies). 

On my A3000-25, MSH will read under 2.0, but can't seem to write.  It works
fine under 1.3, but the messyfmt program seems a little brain-damaged; it
locks up on a blank disk just like it does for you.  I've found I can
format a blank disk if I first do a AmigaDOS quick format on it like this:

	1> format drive df0: name "empty" noicons quick

then use messyfmt.  

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