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From: rodger@hpdml93.HP.COM (Rodger Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Format & FFS problems?
Message-ID: <380009@hpdml93.HP.COM>
Date: 9 Dec 88 08:49:35 GMT
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>/ hpdml93:comp.sys.amiga / ricks@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Rick Schaeffer) / 10:19 pm  Dec  7, 1988 /
>In article <380007@hpdml93.HP.COM> rodger@hpdml93.HP.COM (Rodger Anderson) writes:
>>The first problem:  Format would print out the line "formating cyl 2, 400
>The fact that format tells you that it is starting at cylinder 2 tells me
>that your Mountlist entry for the FFS partition is wrong.  You must tell
Well, actually, I did have a wrong mountlist entry right at first.  I
fixed my mountlist, but still had problems with format.

Basiclly, I want to know two things about format:

	1)  Why would it quit right after printing out the first
	    cylinder and remaining cylinders, and not not format the
	    rest of the partition.  This problem seemed to be fixed by
	    reprepping, even thought didn't think I should need to
	    reprep, since the partition size didn't change.

	2) Why would format spit out the "handler not found" error?  I
	   fixed this by mounting a OFS partition, starting format, then
	   aborting format with ^C, then mounting a FFS partition on the
	   same cylinders of the same disk, and then formating again.
	   After format was finished, I rebooted, and have been happily
	   using my FFS partition ever since.

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