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- From: thomas@diku.dk (Thomas Nikolajsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Very strange DF0: problem
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.111330.20838@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 11:13:30 GMT
- References: <Krzysztof.05qi@netxsys.guild.org> <1992Aug16.165727.1629@posthorn.informatik.uni-kl.de>
- Sender: thomas@rimfaxe.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
- Lines: 19
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- jmayer@bloch.informatik.uni-kl.de (Joerg Mayer (HiWi Buhler)) writes:
-
- >> Here's an odd problem: a few days ago my DF0: stopped reading, writing, and
- >> formatting Amiga disks. However, it still reads and writes MS-DOS disks
- >> using MessyDOS.
- ..
- >A reason I can imagine is, that the drive recognition at system startup time
- >fails (i.e. trackdisk doesn't recognize unit 0 is present). I don't know how
- >MessyDOS works, but if it doesn't use trackdisk (RAW-commands of course) and
- >relies on the information provided in the mountlist it will simply try to use
- >it.
- ..
- >Joerg
-
- MessyDOS' messydisk.device DOES use trackdisk.device,
- it is used for reading (RAWREAD) and stepping (SEEK).
- So, the problem could be other parts of trackdisk.device, the filesystem or..
-
- - thomas
-