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- From: kipster@primenet.com (Kip Pesuti)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: I don't want my icons
- Date: 1 Mar 1996 19:05:02 -0700
- Organization: Primenet Services for the Internet
- Sender: root@primenet.com
- Message-ID: <1893.6634T1082T709@primenet.com>
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-
- >Kip Pesuti wrote:
- >>
- >> >Hi,
- >>
- >> >I was looking for a program which can hide icons of none-dos partitions
- >> >of my HD.
-
- >> Hello, Johan!
- >>
- >> I think you might be referring to "MultiFileSystem" (MFS). It should do the
- >> trick. And yes, it's on Aminet. (All the mirror sites are still accessable
- >> for d/l, accept wustl.edu, of course.)
- >>
- >> >/Johan
- >>
- >> God bless you!
- >> (and your Amiga)
- >> -Kip
-
- >I tried MFS before, and it's pretty good at reading non DOS disks as I
- >recall. Anyways, there is another way to hide non-dos icons, and it's
- >the way I do it on my Amiga/Emplant that has Mac and IBM partitions I
- >don't want to see on my Workbench.
-
- >After you have the IBM and/or Mac partitions set up the way you want,
- >simply use HDToolbox (or some other utility for SCSI setup) and change
- >the `file type' to either `reserved' or `custom' depending on the
- >program and Amiga DOS version you are using. Either way it's the same
- >thing. Don't change anything else, but save these changes. You will get
- >a warinig that "You will lose all your data" on the partition you are
- >changing, but you won't since you didn't change anything except the file
- >type. After a reboot, the partition won't be seen by Amiga DOS (so
- >nothing on the workbench), in fact even the shell Info command won't
- >list the partition. However, any program that checks the SCSI itself
- >will see these partitions. Emplant sees them fine. AmiBack sees them
- >fine (and can do a mirror type backup even). DON'T let AmiBack tools try
- >to fix it for you since it will try to change the file type back, and
- >also try to undo all the non-AmigaDOS changes a non-AmigaDOS partition
- >needs.
-
- >Hope this helps!
-
- >Mark
-
- Thanks, Mark!
-
- But It's Johan that wanted the info. So I'm forewarding this to the newsgroup(s)
- because I don't have Johan's email address. :)
-
- God bless you!
- (and your Amiga)
- -Kip
-
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