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- From: sledford@iglou.iglou.com (Steve L. Edford)
- Subject: Re: How to format an AMIGA partition as IBM partition?
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- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 12:31:22 GMT
-
- manou.billa@ci.educ.lu (Manou BILLA) writes:
-
- >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.
-
-
- >Someone told me do format the partition under AMIGA OS using a mountlist
- >(CrossDos.filesystem).
- >But how can I do this?
-
-
- You can do this without having to format the partition from the Amiga
- side. In HDToolBox, set the FileSystem to "Custom FileSystem", then
- select the "Change FileSystem" button. The window that opens should have
- in the lower left corner three string gadgets as follows:
-
- Identifier:
-
- Mask:
-
- Max Transfer:
-
- The values that I am using with PC-Task 3.1 are:
-
- Identifier == 0x4d534800
-
- Mask == 0x7ffffffe
-
- MaxTransfer == 0xffffff
-
- Of these, the most important is the Identifier. PC-Task will recognize
- this as a PC disk. This comes from the PC-Task manual.
-
- After this, you should be able to boot from an MSDOS floppy with
- PC-Task and FDisk and format the partition under MSDOS.
-
- If you plan on accessing this partition later with CrossDOS, you should
- make it Mount at bootup in HDToolBox. If not, you can turn off the
- automount feature and save a bit of memory.
-
- There is a utility that came with the PC-Task 3.1 update patch called
- "PCTCrossMount" that will create a mountlist entry for your PC partition
- using CrossDOS. That's how I did it and it worked fine.
-
- Well, I hope this is of some help. Good luck with it.
- --
-
- Steve Edford
- sledford@iglou.com
-