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From: smaug@eneevax.UUCP (Kurt Lidl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: FFS on a 440K floppy
Keywords: 1020, FFS, DosType, Mask, FastFileSystem
Message-ID: <1941@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 88 04:47:10 GMT
Reply-To: smaug@eneevax.umd.edu.UUCP (Kurt Lidl)
Organization: University of Merryland, EE Computer Staff
Lines: 42

OK, I know this was hashed over in reference to lost of of
different types of hard disks, but now I want an answer
for my floppy disk.  I have 3meg B2000, 2 3.5" floppies, and
a 5.25" floppy (C= 1020).  Now I have been able to successfully
mount the 1020 floppy as a regular OFS device - DF2:, using
the supplied mountlist entry in the AmigaDOS 1.3 package.

However, when I attempt to mount it as an FFS device, and then
try to format a floppy, it ALWAYS gurus the machine (sometimes
with a Software held requestor, sometimes not...).  At
any rate, if anyone could please point out the errors in my
ways...  (I do NOT run FastMemFirst, though the first thing I
do is mount a 880K RAD disk - FYI).

Here's the mountlist entry, verbatium, that does NOT work:

/* Mount a 5.25" disk drive to be mounted as DF2: */

DF2:       Device = trackdisk.device
           FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
           Unit   = 2
           Flags  = 1
           Surfaces  = 2
           BlocksPerTrack = 11
           Reserved = 2
           Interleave = 0
           LowCyl = 0  ;  HighCyl = 39
           Buffers = 20
           BufMemType = 3
           DosType = 0x444F5301
           Mask = 0x007FFFFF
#

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.                               -Kurt


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