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- From: efp90@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Pritchard EF)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: How to tell if A4000 has OFS or FFS
- Message-ID: <13649@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 14:21:44 GMT
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- In <1992Nov13.205454.22735@ra.msstate.edu> skip@tacky.cs.olemiss.edu (Skip Sauls) writes:
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- >Okay, I finally got the A4000 and have installed the networking software
- >so that I can transfer the files from the A3000. But I don't want to do
- >anything until I find out if the HD is one of the ones that is formatted
- >wrong. HDToolbox says that the filesystem is "custom" and I can't figure
- >out what the hell that means.
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- >Anyone have any ideas?
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- I'm only speculating, but the Hard Disk could be formatted with the
- Directory Caching Option of WB3.0, and therefore normal (<=2.1)
- software will not regonize it properly...
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- There again, I may be totally wrong! Do what the other guy tells you
- and format the drive as you go...
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- E.F.Pritchard ///
- efp90@uk.ac.soton.ecs \\\/// Amiga I seriously need something
- University of Southampton \xx/ to go on this side of my
- England. signature, any ideas?
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