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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Using PC Zip Disks, the truth
- Date: 04 Feb 96 13:59:30 +0500
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- On or about 02-Feb-96 18:23:00 Dylan Nelson typed the following words about
- "Using PC Zip Disks, the truth". My reply is thus...
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- DN> Hi all,
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- DN> OK, I've tried a few of these mountlists floating around that let your Zi
- DN> drive use PC Disks but I can't get them to work.
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- DN> Do I need the commercial version of Cross Dos or can I use the one that
- DN> comes with Workbench 3??
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- DN> Could some who actually has this working please get in touch with a
- DN> working
- DN> mountlist or whatever as the need to read PC Zips is becoming urgent.
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- DN> Thanks
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- DN> Dylan Nelson
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- Here is the mount list I use. I have the commercioa version of CrossDOS. I
- don't think the one that comes with the OS is usable with hard drives.
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- PZ0:
- Surfaces = 1
- BlocksPerTrack = 68
- Lowcyl = 0
- Highcyl = 2890
- BufMemType = 5
- Blocksize = 512
- Device = HardFrame.device
- Unit = 5
- Flags = 0x00000000
- Mask = 0x7FFFFFFE
- Maxtransfer = 0x00FFFFFF
- Reserved = 0
- Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- Stacksize = 2000
- Priority = 5
- Bootpri = -20
- Globvec = -1
- Buffers = 5
- Dostype = 0x4d534800
- Mount = 1
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