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From: carpent@coltrane.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Todd Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: More disk woes - Help!  (Long)
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Date: 11 May 89 03:31:54 GMT
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In-reply-to: andy@cbmvax.UUCP's message of 10 May 89 22:07:47 GMT


Thanks for your reply!  I still can't get it to work...


In article <6814@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes:

(first part, where I prep disk, reboot, and get NOT A DOS DISK)

   >  (so I turn it off, reboot again, once running, turn it back on, let it spin
   >   up for some time.)
   >
   >> mount res0:
   >> format drive res0: name "BH0"

|   NO NO NO
|   THIS ERASES THE INFORMATION STORED ON THE FIRST TWO RESERVED CYLINDERS!!!
|
|   instead just |
|
|   format drive dh0: name FunnyPart
|
|
|   Don't remount res0:
|   Don't ever format res0:
|
|   The manual has a few words on this as well.

But, but, but:  page 25, item (2) says to always mount before prepping.
But (the main thingie), um (blush), yes, I should be formatting dh0:  I feel so
foolish.  It still doesn't work:

1) I did what you said (right after boot) .  It responded with "Drive not
found"
2) I mounted DH0: and got "Device "dh0:" not recognized"
3) I mounted RES0:, tried the above format command:  "Drive not found"

Anything else?  I'm willing to try almost anything legal.