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- From: manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations,comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: How to format an AMIGA partition as IBM partition?
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 00:42:09 GMT
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- Message-ID: <2882.6595T1166T1514@ci.educ.lu>
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- Hi everybody
-
- I have a 99MB partition on my 1 GIG Quantum Fireball SCSI HD which I want to use
- as an IBM partition for the EMPLANT e386dx or A2386AT bridgeboard or PC-Task.
-
- From the e386dx emulation, I can't format the partition from MS-DOS as fdisk
- gives back a 'division by 0' error.
- If I do format the drive from the BIOS Setup it is not recognized as IBM
- disk nor as AMIGA disk (from the AMIGA side).
-
- Someone told me do format the partition under AMIGA OS using a mountlist
- (CrossDos.filesystem).
- But how can I do this?
-
- Here is the data from the partition (Amiga side) using HDTOOLBOX:
-
- SCSI Address 0
-
- partition device name HDPC
-
- Start Cyl 3421
- End Cyl 3784
- Total Cyl 364
- Buffers 30
-
- Here is an example mountlist I found in Storage/Devs but I don't know what it
- is?
-
- Which lines must be changed to what?
- How can I find out about the DosType HEX number?
-
- the file as in Storage/Devs Is this correct?
-
- Device = hardfile.device scsi.device
- Unit = 0 0
- Flags = 0 0
- Surfaces = 1 ?
- BlockPerTrack = 32 ?
- LowCyl = 0 3421
- HighCyl = 620 3784
- Reserved = 0 ?
- FileSystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- Stacksize = 4000 ?
- Priority = 5 5
- GlobVec = -1 ?
- Buffers = 5 30
- BufMemType = 1 ?
- DosType = 0x4D534400 ?????????
-
- Any help is welcome.
-
- My system: A3000 with ECS
- 12 MB FAST RAM / 2 MB CHIP RAM
- KS/WB 3.1 (40.70/40.35) SoftKicked
- A2410 TIGA GFX card with registr. EGS V2 driver (WB 1024x768x8)
- 1 Quantum LPS 52 HD
- 1 Quantum Fireball 1080S HD
- 1 HD floppy drive
- EMPLANT deluxe with e386DX
- VLAB (VHS) Zorro II
- ArcNet A2060 (connected to the A2000 with Envoy)
- (A2386AT not installed for now ;-)
-
- --
- Bye Manou
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