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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: Hard drive problems
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Date: 25 Mar 88 17:51:34 GMT
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In article <2728@crash.cts.com| billd@crash.CTS.COM (Bill D'Camp) writes:
|Sorry, actually I guess I thought there would be changes in the driver because
|of the FFS (although, as I think about it I don't know why I would have thought
|that) changes.  I guess what I really want to know is whether anyone else is 
|having problems with sharing devices through Janus?  The drive which I have
|set up as an Amiga partition formats fine, but gets errors from the disk
|validator.  Does that give a better picture of whats happening?
|I don't really want to rewrite the Janus driver, nor do I think it is 
|necessary.  According to the documentation with the Bridgeboard there is
|no need to set up a separate mountlist entry for Janus partitions, whats not
|clear is whether or not this is still true when each partition is a separate
|physical device.

I don't know if this is related to your problems with validating the hard 
disk, but the last issue of AMigaWorld explains how to properly set up a 
virtualdisk on the Amiga HD with JDISK.SYS and the JLINK command.

The solution to not have validation problems when rebooting, is to conclude
your session with running JLINK with the /U switch to "unlink" the virtual
disk file.  If one doesn't do that, the Amiga file that keeps track of
the PC virtual disk will not have been closed, and therefore will be in a 
screwed up state.


-- Marco Papa

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