Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Disk Driver vs. 1.3
Message-ID: <4323@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 88 21:09:41 GMT
References: <549@etn-rad.UUCP> <4245@cbmvax.UUCP> <558@etn-rad.UUCP>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <558@etn-rad.UUCP> steve@etn-rad.UUCP (Steve Childress) writes:
>Re the problem with FORMAT 1.3 and "handler not found".
>
>I tried using gamma 7 disks, and the problem prevailed.
>
>Hour of experimentation seemed to indicate that FORMAT makes some decisions
>based upon reading block 0 of the mounted partition. It seems to look for
>DOS or DOS\001 to guess about the state of the disk. I believe that it is
>FORMAT that is reading block 0, because I have MOUNT=1 in the mountlist

Sounds like you're trying to get the ffs working without docs, from
a copy that floated by you somehow; no wonder you are having problems.

The handler checks the DOS0 or DOS1 when it fires up; if it finds
the wrong thing, it refuses to fire up.  Send me email with some
additional details like your mountlist and the command you use
to invoke Format, and verification that you have the ffs installed
where your mountlist says its installed, and I'll see if I can
help you.

			andy
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