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- From: wizard@galstar.com (David Templeton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: RE: Pulling hair out: HD seems trashed! HEELLPPP!
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 05:12:47 GMT
- Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
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- >I'm still getting checksum errors and the like on a DIFFERENT drive now
- >too! Is it possible the new WDCxxxx-08 chip I installed few weeks ago could
- >be/go bad and cause this kind of thing?
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- >Any help is appreciated!
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- >also...
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- >I was noticing that after I re-partitioned my drive, and went to
- >try to set up a drive for a Bridgeboard installation, I was supposed to set
- >up the drive partition for the BB and set the "DOSTYPE" to a particular
- >number. When I did this, the file system name field defaulted to
- >"L:FastFileSystem". I could only figure that that "FastFileSystem" is either:
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- > A. _Supposed_ to be STORED IN the L: directory
- > B. _Supposed_ to be WRITTEN TO the L: directory
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- >Which is it?
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- Neither....Depends ;-)
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- If you are running WB2.0+ the FastFileSystem is in the kickstart ROM. Only
- WB1.3 had the fastFileSystem in the L: ditrectory. My controller software
- (GVP Exprep) comes up and says the same thing but allows you to continue and
- it then reads it from the kickstart rom.
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