| From: | Richard Lane |
| Date: | 29 Sep 2001 at 15:36:11 |
| Subject: | Re: [amigactive] Amiga DOS versions? |
Hello John,
Friday, September 28, 2001, 10:21:00 PM, you wrote:
> While browsing in my "info" list of devices and partitions, I
> noticed for the first time that one partition uses a different DOS
> version from all the others. e.g.
> Unit Type Size Used Free Max-File Full Errs Stat Name
> DH0: DOS1 252M 38M 214M 222,002,176 15% 0 R/W Work1
> DH1: DOS3 100M 27K 100M 104,342,016 0% 0 R/W Work2
> DH2: DOS1 127M 73M 53M 55,561,728 57% 0 R/W Work3
> [SNIP]
> Can someone tell me what is the difference between DOS1 and DOS3,
> and - maybe - how this difference might have ocurred ?
Relying on my fading memory, the type is how the disk or partition is
formatted.
DOS0 the OFS (Original file system)
DOS1 the newer FFS (Fast file system)
DOS3 introduced iirc in Workbench 3.x FFS-DC (Fast filesystem directory
cache)
You can check these by formatting a floppy disk.
Directory Opus 6 - Back from the Future http://www.gpsoft.com.au
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