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From: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: FFS on a 5.25 A1020
Keywords: Can this be done?
Message-ID: <5140@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 31 Oct 88 14:58:37 GMT
References: <717@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Reply-To: steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <717@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU> arp@pdp.cs.OHIOU.EDU (John Gordos) writes:
>
>
>	Hi,
>
>	I'm trying to get FFS running on the 1020 5.25" drive.  My
>	understanding is that this should be possible, since the
>	drive must be MOUNTed.
>
>	It all seems to work EXCEPT that all the object files I place
>	on the drive, give "not an object module" messages when I
>	try to run them.   If I copy them back to a known non-FFS 
>	device, they still are not object modules.
>
You must also specify Mask = 0x7ffff in your mountlist and BufMemType should
be set to MEMF_CHIP.  5 1/4 drives still require chip memory buffers.

	Steve