Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!mtuxo!mtgzz!bjh
From: bjh@mtgzz.att.com (b.j.hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: FFS JANUS (was Re: Bridgeboard)
Summary: It seems to work
Keywords: Bridgeboard Sidecar JANUS FFS
Message-ID: <4931@mtgzz.att.com>
Date: 31 Jan 89 22:13:53 GMT
References: <2191@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: bjh@mtgzz.UUCP (b.j.hudson)
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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In <2191@van-bc.UUCP> (Larry Phillips) writes:
>In the latest Transactor for the Amiga (Vol 1, issue 5 & 6), Don Curtis (Amiga
>Dispatches), gives a procedure for running an Amiga FFS partition on a Janus
>drive. Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321

I tried the updated procedure on my Sidecar JANUS drive and it seems to work.
I think I will wait for JANUS 2.0 before I trust it for sure though.

Since the first partition on my hard drive is for MS-DOS, I used the second
partition (JH0:) for JANUS FFS.

- ADISK reported partition 2 from cylinder 201 to 228 length 28.
- DPFormat reported starting at 0 and ending at 25.
- Watch early versions of Sectorama that can update to the wrong partition.
- In the Mountlist I used low=0 and high cylinder= 25 (not 201 and 228). 
- A normal JANUS partition and a FFS JANUS can be on the same disk, but they
  cannot both be mounted.  I guess I have to backup to floppies.
- Yes, 4-5 times faster for big file reads and writes. Thanks!   .....BJ

BJ Hudson  att!mtgzz!bjh