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- Path: actrix.gen.nz!cpalmer
- From: cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Colin Palmer)
- Subject: Re: Using PC Zip Disks, the truth
- Message-ID: <DMB1yD.FIG@actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: news@actrix.gen.nz (News Administrator)
- Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
- Date: Mon, 5 Feb 1996 13:39:48 GMT
- References: <3-633-265-0-2401b475@nwamiga.apana.org.au> <1749.6608T839T1525@xmission.com>
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-
- In article <1749.6608T839T1525@xmission.com>,
- John S. Burger <jsburger@xmission.com> wrote:
- >
- > 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.
-
- The version of CrossDOS with Workbench 3.0 almost works with harddrives.
- After a week of changing settings and rebooting, it finally occurred to
- me to look at the example files provided by Hisoft with the Squirrel.
- There is one for a 270Mb SyQuest drive that is easily changes to work
- with a ZIP drive. The main thing that the info floating around out there
- forgets to tell you is that THE NAME OF THE DEVICE MUST END IN C (eg
- ZIPC:, PC100C:, ZIP_PC: etc.). Another thing is that I cannot seem to
- format MS-DOS ZIP disks, no matter what I try (it fails with "disk not
- validated").
-
- Here's something that should work (works for me under Workbench 3.0):
-
- ZIP_PC:
- Surfaces = 1
- BlocksPerTrack = 1
- Lowcyl = 0
- Highcyl = 196608
- BufMemType = 5
- Blocksize = 512
- Device = <name or your scsi device>
- Unit = 5 or 6
- Flags = 0x00000000
- Mask = 0x7FFFFFFE
- Maxtransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF
- Reserved = 0
- Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- Stacksize = 2000
- Priority = 5
- Buffers = 30
- Dostype = 0x4d534800
- Mount = 1
- #
-
-
-
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