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- Path: actrix.gen.nz!cpalmer
- From: cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (Colin Palmer)
- Subject: Re: ZIP-Drive and PC-Forma
- Message-ID: <Dn4r2u.E6C@actrix.gen.nz>
- Sender: news@actrix.gen.nz (News Administrator)
- Organization: Actrix - Internet Services
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 14:32:54 GMT
- References: <31266C34.62D5@unet.univie.ac.at> <1655.6623T690T850@xmission.com>
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-
- In article <1655.6623T690T850@xmission.com>,
- John S. Burger <jsburger@xmission.com> wrote:
- >
- > Here is the mountlist I use. It reads the MS-DOS ZIP Tools disk that comes
- > with the drive just fine.
-
- Hmm, OK, there are couple of possible problems with this:
-
- > PZ0:
-
- If you are using the version of CrossDOS that comes with WB3.0 (and
- probably 2.1), THE NAME OF THE DEVICE MUST END IN C - this is
- inportant, otherwise CrossDOS won't mount the device.
-
- > Surfaces = 1
- > BlocksPerTrack = 68
- > Lowcyl = 0
- > Highcyl = 2890
-
- These are wrong (HToolBox has a problem getting these right). If you
- want to be able to use MS-DOS formatted disks (Highcyl-Lowcyl+1) *
- Surfaces * BlocksPerTrack must equal 196608. the following works:
-
- Surfaces = 1
- BlocksPerTrack = 1
- Lowcyl = 0
- Highcyl = 196607
-
- > BufMemType = 5
-
- 0 is a better idea, although 5 will work if you have plenty of Fast RAM.
-
- > Blocksize = 512
- > Device = HardFrame.device
- > Unit = 5
-
- Remember to change Device and Unit if necessary (If you have WB2.1+ it's
- a good idea to move these to the icon tooltypes).
-
- > Flags = 0x00000000
- > Mask = 0xFFFFFFFE
- > Maxtransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF
-
- Depending on your setup, yoo may have to reduce Maxtransfer if you find
- large files getting corrupted.
-
- > Reserved = 0
- > Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- > Stacksize = 2000
- > Priority = 5
- > Bootpri = -20
- > Globvec = -1
- > Buffers = 5
-
- ZIP drives are rather slow on small files. I'd increase this to at least
- 50 (I use 100).
-
- > Dostype = 0x4d534800
- > Mount = 1
- > #
-
-
-
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