Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!cbmvax!bill
From: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FFS JANUS (was Re: Bridgeboard)
Keywords: Bridgeboard Sidecar JANUS FFS
Message-ID: <5902@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 89 16:21:19 GMT
References: <2191@van-bc.UUCP> <4931@mtgzz.att.com>
Reply-To: bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
Lines: 29

In article <4931@mtgzz.att.com> bjh@mtgzz.UUCP (b.j.hudson) writes:
>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.
>
I recommend DJMount as the ONLY way to mount Janus drives. The V2.0 command
supports FFS. JDisk.device maps sector #'s and may do some things you are
not expecting. Also if you delete a patition with adisk and forget to update
your mountlist before you reboot..... *POOF*

				BK
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