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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP-Drive and PC-TASK
- Date: 12 Mar 1996 06:32:49 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
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- Tom Kennedy (tomk@fc.hp.com) wrote:
- : Tom Kennedy (tomk@fc.hp.com) wrote:
-
- : : 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 was asked to post my PC-TASK mountlist, so here it is:
-
- OK... that mountlist I posted works for reading disks, but won't
- create them. THIS mountlist *does* work :)
-
- (Basically, the problem was that the number of cylinders was too big
- for messy-dos, so I increased the number of heads to compensate.)
-
- If you use pre-formatted disks, this will work great. Otherwise, you
- will need to partition the disk with the messy-dos program FDISK.
- Then you can format it.
-
- Since PC-Task has no removable media support, you MUST do a "chkdsk D:"
- when you change disks (i tried it, and it does work).
-
- IZ0:
- /* Mountfile Entry Created: 12-Jul-95 19:46:24
- * for full CrossDOS Disk.
- *
- * Disk Size: 95.9 Meg
- * Vendor and drive name: 006 IOMEGA ZIP 100
- *
- * Dummy file system (Crossdos messy-dos hard drive file system changes
- * geometry) -> use this mountlist for PC-TASK
- */
- /* Disk size parameters.*/
- Surfaces = 8
- BlocksPerTrack = 32
- Lowcyl = 0
- Highcyl = 767
- BufMemType = 0
- Blocksize = 512
- /* Device driver parameters.*/
- Device = 2nd.scsi.device
- Unit = 5
- /* Flags = 0x00000000 */
- /* File system parameters.*/
- Mask = 0xFFFFFFFE
- Maxtransfer = 0x00FFFFFF
- Reserved = 0
- Filesystem = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
- Stacksize = 2000
- Priority = 5
- Bootpri = -20
- Globvec = -1
- Buffers = 5
- Dostype = 0x4d534400
- Mount = 0
- #
-