dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) (07/14/90)
Simple question: How do you format a floppy with FFS in 2.0?? -- Dan Cogswell "In a world full of Ninja Turtles, it's INET: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu nice to see Aikido Yoshinkai has BITNET: dlcogswell@oakland preserved it's dignity." HAIRNET: <fill-in dumb joke> -- Gozo Shioda, 1990
jjszucs@cbmvax.commodore.com (John J. Szucs) (07/14/90)
In article <2060@vela.acs.oakland.edu> dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes: >Simple question: > >How do you format a floppy with FFS in 2.0?? To format an FFS floppy under 2.0: FORMAT DRIVE <drive> NAME <name> FFS For example, to format the floppy in drive DF0: under FFS with the name "Data": FORMAT DRIVE DF0: NAME "Data" FFS > >-- >Dan Cogswell "In a world full of Ninja Turtles, it's >INET: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu nice to see Aikido Yoshinkai has >BITNET: dlcogswell@oakland preserved it's dignity." >HAIRNET: <fill-in dumb joke> -- Gozo Shioda, 1990 ================================================================================ || John J. Szucs || The opinions expressed are my own and || || Systems Evaluation Group || in no way represent the opinions or || || Product Assurance Department || policies of Commodore Technology, Inc. || || Commodore Technology, Inc. || or any associated entity. || ================================================================================ ...{rutgers|uunet|pyramid}!cbmvax!jjszucs jjszucs@cbmvax.commodore.com
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (07/16/90)
In <24729@estelle.udel.EDU>, new@udel.EDU (Darren New) writes: >>>To format an FFS floppy under 2.0: > >Speaking of which: >Has 2.0 changed the layout of FFS or OFS partitions enough to >mess up software like disk optimizers? I have a backup >program I've written that relies on some of the (as of 1.2) >undocumented disk structure like directory header block >formats and such. Other than questions of initial placements, >will this still work under FFS2.0? -- Darren There is one new kind of header block, the link. You will have to take that into account. The primary type (longword $02) is $00000002, the secondary type (longword $7F) if $FFFFFFFC, and the link is stored in longword $75. The real directory header has what looks like a link count in longword $75. This info is for hard links; no idea what a soft link will look like. If you are depending too heavily on things undocumented, you could get into difficulty. Best way I found was to use the FIB for all information. -larry -- The raytracer of justice recurses slowly, but it renders exceedingly fine. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig) (07/16/90)
On 13 Jul 90 20:36:17 GMT you said: >In article <2060@vela.acs.oakland.edu> dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan > Cogswell) writes: >>Simple question: >> >>How do you format a floppy with FFS in 2.0?? > >To format an FFS floppy under 2.0: > >FORMAT DRIVE <drive> NAME <name> FFS > Shouldn't FFS be DEFAULT? >jjszucs@cbmvax.commodore.com -------- F. Michael Theilig - The University of Rhode Island at Little Rest GWO110 at URIACC.Bitnet GKZ117 at URIACC.Bitnet "Gooooood coffee."
new@udel.EDU (Darren New) (07/16/90)
>>To format an FFS floppy under 2.0:
Speaking of which:
Has 2.0 changed the layout of FFS or OFS partitions enough to
mess up software like disk optimizers? I have a backup
program I've written that relies on some of the (as of 1.2)
undocumented disk structure like directory header block
formats and such. Other than questions of initial placements,
will this still work under FFS2.0? -- Darrenjjszucs@cbmvax.commodore.com (John J. Szucs) (07/16/90)
In article <24692@snow-white.udel.EDU> GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig) writes: > Shouldn't FFS be DEFAULT? > > -------- > F. Michael Theilig - The University of Rhode Island at Little Rest > GWO110 at URIACC.Bitnet > GKZ117 at URIACC.Bitnet > >"Gooooood coffee." FFS is not the default for FORMAT for compatibility, which was one of our highest priorities throughout the development of 2.0. From Kickstart/Workbench 1.0 onward, a floppy formatted on any Amiga running any version of the operating system has been readable by any other Amiga running any other version of the operating system. By using FFS as a default, this floppy compatibility would be lost unless the user specifically asked for it. If you want a quick and easy way to format floppies under FFS, I'd suggest using an alias like: alias fformat "format [] ffs" jjszucs
daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (07/18/90)
In article <24729@estelle.udel.EDU> new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New) writes: >I have a backup program I've written that relies on some of the (as of 1.2) >undocumented disk structure like directory header block formats and such. Uh, this stuff was documented back before 1.0. Not well, but the structure of directory, file, extension blocks, etc. was documented in "The AmigaDOS Technical Reference Manual", one of the rather thin books in the original Amiga developer "Phone Book" series. I think this eventually got put in with the other AmigaDOS stuff that wound up in the Bantam AmigaDOS manual. About the only thing not documented at all was the "whys" of the various allocation decisions. Which, of course, has changed several times anyway. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "I have been given the freedom to do as I see fit" -REM