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From: billd@crash.cts.com (Bill D'Camp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: BridgeBoard/Janus questions
Message-ID: <2589@crash.cts.com>
Date: 25 Feb 88 19:12:43 GMT
Reply-To: billd@crash.cts.com (Bill D'Camp)
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Organization: DevWare, Inc. La Jolla, CA
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Keywords: used on A500/A1000

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I have some questions about the BridgeBoard which I've been
using on my A500 and A1000.  I noticed a "serial gadget" in the
PC Prefs, what is this for, according to the manual which came
with the board you cannot access the Amiga serial device from the
PC side, is this to allow Amiga access a serial port on the PC
side and does this explain the existence of an address for 
COM1 in the Janus stuff?  We have a key-protected CAD package
for the PC which we were going to use on the BridgeBoard, but
found that we had to plug in a serial/parallel card on the
PC side to attach the key to, it wouldn't work attached to the
Amiga parallel port even though it was assigned to the PC side,
anyone have any ideas about how to make the Amiga parallel port
function like LPT1?  

Most importantly, I put a couple of old 20MB drives on the PC side
and am using one for the PC and one for the Amiga.  The key thing is
that these are not new drives and the one in use for the Amiga has
some bad blocks on it.  I've partitioned around the bad blocks, but
there must be a better way to take care of bad blocks.  Will the 
new Fast File System handle bad blocks?  The easiest way to handle
them that I can think of would be to create a bad block file and
link the identified blocks to the file, this is not possible with
any of the existing disk tools that I know of (diskdoctor, disksalv,
disked, or sectorama), before I start working on such a tool I'd like
to know if one already exists, and what the FFS will do about bad blocks.

Thanks.

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