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From: papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
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Subject: Re: MSH
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Date: 22 Feb 90 18:36:48 GMT
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In article <2898@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> hammock@mars.UUCP (Randy Hammock) writes:
|In article <23012@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
||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.
|
|I was able to get messyfmt to format a MSDOS disk on drive df1: as 
|verified by Dos-2-Dos.  (I started out with a blank disk)  It seemed
|that if I tried to format an already AmigaDOS formatted disk, it did
|what you described.  Oh yes, when I formatted the blank disk, I did
|specify the device as well. ( probably not necessary as the instructions
|state that it does default to messydisk.device.)
|So far, I have not been able to mount MS1: (renamed MSH:).  I just get
|a message -- reserved not assigned.  I have no idea what it is 
|complaining about.  I am runnning a straight WB 1.3, KS 1.2 A2000.

If you have an external drive and only one internal drive, you should
have an MS2: (df2: corresponds to messydos unit 2).  Anyway, I was able
to format an Amiga formatted disk in two steps. First I tell him to format
nly with the FAT, then I tell it to format the entire thing.  

SO I copied some files from an Amiga volume to MS2:.  It copied them back
and forth just fine.  In fact I've been able to copy the files to
an IBM PS/2 model 80 with no problem. BUT, if I use DIR or LIST on the
MS2: volume all files are listed as Directories (dir) instead of
plain text or binary files. Can anybody report this bug to Olaf?
I found no e-mail address for him. BTW, a DIR on the PS/2 showed the files
correctly as plain files and not directories.

Tonight I'll try to copy an "original" 720K PS/2 disk and see what
happens.  All in all, even with the bugs a pretty nice piece of
software.

-- Marco

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