Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!sunic!tut!ra!rosenber From: rosenber@ra.abo.fi (Robin Rosenberg INF) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MSH Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 90 13:57:59 GMT References: <23012@usc.edu> Sender: rosenber@ra.abo.fi Organization: Abo Akademi University, Finland Lines: 22 In-reply-to: papa@pollux.usc.edu's message of 22 Feb 90 02:34:56 GMT >Has anybody been able to format a MessyDOS disk with the format utility >provided? I installed the whole deal, as MS2: (driver df2:) and when I >run format (responding with the defaults to all questions) the light goes >up, it says cyl 0 side 0 and nothing happends. The light stays on, but >the cyl and side no. won't advance and nothing gets formatted. For me the cyl and side no did advance and it seemed the disk was formatted. BUT, I had to remove and reinsert the disk to make the handler recognize it. BUT, when i tried to write stuff nothing were written to the disk. At least according to the directory listing. I have also noted a few other bugs. MSh seems to set the DirEntry type to an illgal value (zero ?) so list and dir lists files on a disk as DIR even though they are plain files. Most file requesters report them correctly though. Bug#2: Volume labels longer than eight characters are handled incorrectly, i.e they are broken into 8+"."+3 character which causes problems. Anyway it's a good attempt. Seems usable if one has a PC to format disks on. ------------ Robin Rosenberg