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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip / MS-DOS
- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Message-ID: <bmaple.huvz@burner.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jan 96 23:35:19 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS
-
- On Mon 15-Jan-1996 12:21a, Jim Pritchett wrote:
-
- JP> Has anyone figured out how to put an MS-DOS partition on a Zip disk
- JP> using the CrossDos that comes with OS 3.1?
-
- You can configure a whole disk as an MS-DOS partition:
-
- /* Wow it's a mountlist
- */
-
- FileSystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- Flags = 0
- Surfaces = 1
- BlocksPerTrack = 1
- SectorsPerBlock = 1
- SectorSize = 512
- Mask = 0x7ffffffe
- MaxTransfer = 0x100000
- Reserved = 0
- Interleave = 0
- LowCyl = 0
- HighCyl = 196607
- Buffers = 5
- BufMemType = 0
- StackSize = 2000
- Priority = 10
- GlobVec = -1
- DosType = 0x4d534800
- Device = scsi.device
- Unit = 5
-
- /* End of wow it's a mountlist
- */
-
- Of course the Device and Unit need to be customized to your configuration.
-
- To create a small partition is just a matter of playing with the values to hit
- a safe area of the disk (if you're aiming to make a combination Amiga/PC disk
- or something -- but then it's your own problem to get the PC to read the PC
- partition..)
-
- : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created. :
- : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and :
- : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move. .........:
-