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How to mount MsDos-formatted Syquests on Amiga

To mount a MSDos-formatted Syquest on Amiga, you need with an (DOSen) Adaptec-Controller the following Mount-entry in `DEVS:Mountlist': If your medium does have more than one partition, you need to copy the following Mount-Entry for every partition and give each partition another name (eg. SyC:, SyD:, SyE:, etc.) You don't need to change LowCyl and HighCyl for each partition; CrossDOSFileSystem does that automatically.

SyC:   /* SyD:, SyE:, etc. */
        Filesystem      = L:CrossDOSFileSystem
        Device          = scsi.device
        Unit            = 2
        Flags           = 1
        Surfaces        = 1
        BlocksPerTrack  = 1
        BlockSize       = 512
        Reserved        = 1
        Interleave      = 0
        LowCyl          = 0
        HighCyl         = 524287
        Buffers         = 128
        BufMemType      = 0
        Stacksize       = 4000
        Priority        = 5
        GlobVec         = -1
        DosType         = 0x4D534800
        Activate        = 1
#

For different (DOSen) controllers this entry should work, too, but maybe you have to adjust it. When inserted, the Syquest-270MB medium is (in this case) automatically mounted (as drive SyC:) and can be used with help of the CrossDOS-Filesystem as usual.

Gerhard Schneider (fido@incubus.sub.org) Andre Keller (keller@rs11.hrz.th-darmstadt.de)



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