ndh@lanl.gov (Norman D. Hamer) (12/12/90)
I now have the Bernoulli Box II 44 Meg drive up and running after litte help from Iomega or Amiga. It turns out that the HDTools under AmigaDos are quite good. The Tool program can actually determine the charateristics of the drive and do just about anything to set it up. However, the FastFileSystem under Dos 2.0 does not reside in dir: l: you can't find it at all. In this way Dos 2.0 is quite a bit different from Dos 1.3. I actually went back and did a lot of the set up with Dos 1.3 as I could not understand Dos 2.0. However, you can get the FFS on the disk if you just go out of the HDToolBox and use the format command from the command line with FFS at the end. It amazes me that the Amiga people do not know that there software is so good and will handle even unknown type drives. Once the drive has been formatted and partitioned further cartridges are recognized by the system and you only have to format them...in fact if you want different partitioning on each cartridge you will be in trouble unless you want to go back and reset up the drive each time you change cartridges...I am trying to see if I can find a way around this. I have even used an Amax partition on the cartridge and it works also. The Bernoulli is expensive but it has performance near or equal to my 100 Meg Quantum drive...not bad for a removable cartridge drive. Well, I hope this may help others trying to get drives going...removable or fixed. Norm Hamer Group A-3 Mail Stop F607 Los Alamos National Lab Los Alamos, NM 87545 ndh@lanl.gov or ndh@lanl.bitnet
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (12/12/90)
In <8538@lanl.gov>, ndh@lanl.gov (Norman D. Hamer) writes: > >It amazes me that the Amiga people do not know that there software is >so good and will handle even unknown type drives. Where did you get the idea they didn't know? No flame intended... just curious. -larry -- The only things to survive a nuclear war will be cockroaches and IBM PCs. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+