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- From: D6B@ECL.PSU.EDU (Dan E Babcock)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Mounting a PC partition with CrossDOS
- Date: 20 Nov 1994 10:04:57 GMT
- Organization: Penn State Engineering Computer Lab
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- In-Reply-To: bytey@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au's message of 15 Nov 1994 14:21:50 +1100
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- In <3a99ge$e4p$1@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au> bytey@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au 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.
-
- This should not be neccessary. As long as lowcyl=0, CrossDOS will read the
- drive partition table and adjust its internal parameters appropriately.
- i.e. you don't have to set those mountlist parameters to anything in
- particular.
-
- - 2. Use DosType=0x4d534800.
- -
- - 3. End the mount name in C eg "PCC:" for the first partition D for the
- - next etc.
-
- Correct.
-
- Dan
-