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- From: jsburger@xmission.com (John S. Burger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP-Drive and PC-Forma
- Date: 24 Feb 96 14:02:28 +0500
- Organization: XMission Internet (801 539 0900)
- Message-ID: <2929.6628T842T1415@xmission.com>
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- On or about 21-Feb-96 19:32:54 Colin Palmer typed the following words about
- "Re: ZIP-Drive and PC-Forma". My reply is thus...
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- CP> In article <1655.6623T690T850@xmission.com>,
- CP> John S. Burger <jsburger@xmission.com> wrote:
- >>
- >> Here is the mountlist I use. It reads the MS-DOS ZIP Tools disk that co
- >> with the drive just fine.
-
- CP> Hmm, OK, there are couple of possible problems with this:
- CP>
- >> PZ0:
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- CP> If you are using the version of CrossDOS that comes with WB3.0 (and
- CP> probably 2.1), THE NAME OF THE DEVICE MUST END IN C - this is
- CP> inportant, otherwise CrossDOS won't mount the device.
-
- I have the commercial version so the above *IS* *NOT* *TRUE*. It works just
- fine.
-
- >> Surfaces = 1
- >> BlocksPerTrack = 68
- >> Lowcyl = 0
- >> Highcyl = 2890
-
- CP> These are wrong (HToolBox has a problem getting these right). If you
- CP> want to be able to use MS-DOS formatted disks (Highcyl-Lowcyl+1) *
- CP> Surfaces * BlocksPerTrack must equal 196608. the following works:
-
- CP> Surfaces = 1
- CP> BlocksPerTrack = 1
- CP> Lowcyl = 0
- CP> Highcyl = 196607
-
- >> BufMemType = 5
-
- CP> 0 is a better idea, although 5 will work if you have plenty of Fast RAM.
-
- I do! :<)
-
- >> Blocksize = 512
- >> Device = HardFrame.device
- >> Unit = 5
-
- CP> Remember to change Device and Unit if necessary (If you have WB2.1+ it's
- CP> a good idea to move these to the icon tooltypes).
-
- >> Flags = 0x00000000
- >> Mask = 0xFFFFFFFE
- >> Maxtransfer = 0x7FFFFFFF
-
- CP> Depending on your setup, yoo may have to reduce Maxtransfer if you find
- CP> large files getting corrupted.
-
- >> Reserved = 0
- >> Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- >> Stacksize = 2000
- >> Priority = 5
- >> Bootpri = -20
- >> Globvec = -1
- >> Buffers = 5
-
- CP> ZIP drives are rather slow on small files. I'd increase this to at least
- CP> 50 (I use 100).
-
- I agree, I just don't use PC ZIP disks that much so I didn't change it.
-
- >> Dostype = 0x4d534800
- >> Mount = 1
- >> #
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