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Help for !SCSIFiler v1.00, by Jason "The Master of the Arcane" Williams
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* Disclaimer ************************************************************
* *
* This program is completely PD. Copy it as much as you like, so long *
* as you do not make any profit from such activities. *
* Use it at your own risk. I accept no responsibility for any loss or *
* damage caused by the use or misuse of this program. *
* *
* Note: This was written to work with Oak SCSI drives. It WILL NOT work *
* with ADFS (ST506) drives. It may not work with other SCSI interfaces. *
* *
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Loading instructions
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To replace your old filer with !SCSIFiler, just double-click the icon...
To permanently replace it, if your computer automatically boots from a hard
drive or battery-backed RAM or whatever, then you can add this application
into your boot-up sequence.
(RUN IT AND TEST THAT IT WORKS BEFORE PUTTING IT INTO YOUR AUTO-BOOT!)
[Note that if anything goes wrong, you are likely to end up with no way of
mounting your hard drive (short of going to the CLI and using
*Filer_Opendir), in which case you might need to reset your computer before
you can use your hard drive again...]
Description
===========
After having my brand new Oak SCSI card for 3 days, I finally got fed up
with the supplied filer (SCSIFiler module) so much that I wrote my own
replacement for it. It does almost everything the old filer did (except the
multitude of BAD things!), plus more.
Functions
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· Dismount, Verify and Free just as on the Oak Filer.
· Mount a disc by clicking it's icon, just as on the Oak Filer.
· Ability to display MY hard drive icon, which is higher than the default
one.
(If you wish to change this icon, edit the sprite "SCSIdisc" in the
!Sprites file. (I have included my "FloppyDisc" and "RamFS" icons with the
names "NFloppyDisc" and "NRamFS" - If you like them, rename the 'n' off
the front of their names, and they will replace the normal icons. Note
that for floppydisc to work correctly, it must be loaded BEFORE the
desktop is started up.))
· Mounting and dismounting the drive doesn't cause the icon to jump to the
end of the icons on the iconbar. I CAN'T STAND having my hard disc
'moving', especially if you click menu over the icon with the disc
unmounted- The icon jumps away from under the pointer! Eugh!
· Display of current freespace under the drive icon (e.g. "83M" means
approx. 83 Megabytes are free on that drive (I love having a 100MB HDD!)
Note that it doesn't try to read the free space on the drive if the drive
is unmounted (Which would cause it to be mounted, which is not good if you
just dismounted it so you could turn the machine off!!!). In this case,
the last freespace reading, or 00M will appear instead. (So the only time
it is not correct is if you have just started or reset your machine, and
have not yet mounted the disc)
At present, I have not implemented the 'Name Disc' option- As I wrote this
for my personal use, I didn't bother, as I don't see why anyone would want
to change the name of their hard disc every 5 minutes, and if they really
have to, they can still do it from the CLI...
The name is no longer displayed under the icon (The free space indicator
goes there now instead), but it is shown (if known) in the title of the menu
that you bring up from each drive. If the name is unknown, the drive numer
will be shown instead. Note that the name can still remain known when the
disc is dismounted, unlike the Oak filer. (I don't know why they couldn't
keep the name... I do the same as the Oak filer did to read the name!!!)
When run, !SCSIFiler kills the current SCSI Filer module (Which is copied
into RAM from the podule when you turn your computer on) and takes over it's
functions.
!SCSIFiler can be killed from the Task Manager window, but remember that
this leaves you without any way of mounting your hard drive!! (Apart from
resorting to the CLI). The 'old' filer will NOT reappear if you kill
SCSIFiler.
Jason Williams.