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- From: Eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Mounting a PC partition with CrossDOS
- Message-ID: <YWvMv*Y50@wolf359.exile.org>
- Date: Sun, 20 Nov 1994 02:02:36 GMT
- References: <OuZJv*P30@wolf359.exile.org> <3a99ge$e4p$1@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au>
- Organization: Engineers in Exile
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- In article <3a99ge$e4p$1@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au>, Chris Hames writes:
-
- > The main things to remember when trying to read a real IBM harddrive
- > with CrossDOS mountlist entry are:-
- >
- > 1. Get the mount parameters from HDToolBox/ChangeDriveType/DefineNew/
- > ReadConfiguration, if the number of heads * blockspertrack does not equal
- > blockspercylinder then set heads(surfaces) to one and use blockspercylinder
- > as BlocksPerTrack in the mount entry.
-
- I've tried doing this but the PC partition uses a different cylinder size.
- HDtoolbox reports 1 head and 604 blocks/track. The PC partioning software
- reports 17 heads and 62 blocks per track or 1054 blocks/cylinder. I have
- tried using HDtoolbox's numbers and just enough cylinders to contain the
- PC partion. I still get "Not a fileSystem device"
-
- > 2. Use DosType=0x4d534800.
-
- Did that but thanks for clearifying the point. The mountlist for the PC
- floppies uses DosType=0x4d534400.
-
- > 3. End the mount name in C eg "PCC:" for the first partition D for the
- > next etc.
-
- Er, why? The name of the mount name would seem to be irrelivent. Is
- CrossDos being very weird?
-
- This is CrossDOS from the AmigaOS 2.1 distribution. It isn't different
- from "real" CrossDOS is it?
-
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