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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Floppy FFS
Message-ID: <10862@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 89 02:05:54 GMT
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In article <19613@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mjm@manatee.cis.ufl.edu (Michael Murphy) writes:
>Kinda related, has anyone gotten AutoDiskChange to work?  (It was posted a few
>weeks ago, i can't remember offhand who submitted it).  I have the mountlist
>that was posted with it, and i have FFS working on all my floppies, but the
>AutoDiskChange gives me an error message ("AutoDiskchange failed, return code
>20" or something like that).  I have Arplib in libs: like it says.  My system
>is A1000 512k, Insider 1Meg expansion, Amiga 5-1/4" external drive, Supra 4x4,
>Seagate ST277N.

The first time I tried FFS on floppies, the disk drives would just
click whenever I tried to format them with the FFS option. Eventually,
format returned with an error.

I don't know what I did different the second time, but it seems to work
now. I have an A1000 with 512K. I don't mount FF0: and FF1: at bootup
because it takes up so much ram. Instead, I have a shell alias called
"ffs" that mounts FF0: and FF1: and fires up autodiskchange.

If I had the memory, I would have a FFS floppy mounted all the time simply
because it does run faster, and you can hold more on a disk.

On a related note: Has anyone had trouble running virusx and formatting
floppies at the same time? Sometimes I've had disk errors and sometimes
I get a guru.

Sean
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