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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP-Drive and PC-TASK
- Date: 28 Feb 1996 22:15:54 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
- Message-ID: <4h2k6q$fug@fcnews.fc.hp.com>
- References: <31266C34.62D5@unet.univie.ac.at> <1655.6623T690T850@xmission.com> <Dn4r2u.E6C@actrix.gen.nz> <4grol0$5e4@nntp5.u.washington.edu>
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- David Jarvis (djarvis@u.washington.edu) wrote:
- : In article <Dn4r2u.E6C@actrix.gen.nz>,
- : Colin Palmer <cpalmer@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
- : >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.
-
- : The only difficulty I then have is getting PC-Task to recognize a Zip
- : disk called PZC: when the hard disk partition that boots PC-Task is PCC:
-
- : Any suggestions there?
-
- Have two mountlists for the Zip drive. One called PZC: with a
- filesystem of CrossDOSFileSystem (used for the Amiga side to read the
- messy-dos Zip disks), and another called PZ0:, with a filesystem of
- anything else. (Both should have the same geometry, just different
- filesystems.)
-
- I had to do this for PC-Task as well. I noticed that CrossDOS changes
- the drive geometry when it is mounted... PC-Task wants the original
- drive geometry, so you need a seperate mount of the drive that
- CrossDOS doesn't have access to. (PC-Task doesn't need CrossDOS for
- anything... it gets messy-dos file system from messy-dos!)
-
- Tom Kennedy
-