STU00@vx.acss.umn.edu (Stuart Stanley) (03/30/89)
Hello all, I am posting the for my brother who does not have access to the net: (Say hello to Scott everybody!) He is having problems with virtual drives on his PC side. Here is the configuration: Amiga-2000 Cltd Hardrive, mounted on the Amiga side BridgeBoard 1meg mem Just recently he had a problem with his virtual drive locking up his entire machine. Whenever a write occured to the drive, it would spin forever and the mouse/everything would freeze. After some fiddeling, we gave up the file as lost and I told him to just create a new one. This was done with the following command: (MS-dos side) jlink e: jh0:ms.vd0 /opt s10000 (Hmmm, I am not sure how the option part should look, but we did it so that there was 10000 k's of disk allocated) He was then able to use the drive as normal and loaded all his software back up. The next day however, he came back, jlinked up and the drive told him that it was not an MS-dos disk. We tried it two more time and got the samething. Could anyone tell me what is going on here? Is there a conflict with using FFS and ms-dos virtual files? PLEASE! Cheers, Stuart
Sullivan@cup.portal.com (sullivan - segall) (03/31/89)
> >I am posting the for my brother who does not have access to the net: >(Say hello to Scott everybody!) He is having problems with virtual >drives on his PC side. Here is the configuration: > >Just recently he had a problem with his virtual drive locking up his entire >machine. Whenever a write occured to the drive, it would spin forever and >the mouse/everything would freeze. After some fiddeling, we gave up >the file as lost and I told him to just create a new one. This was done >with the following command: (MS-dos side) > > jlink e: jh0:ms.vd0 /opt s10000 > >He was then able to use the drive as normal and loaded all his software >back up. The next day however, he came back, jlinked up and the drive >told him that it was not an MS-dos disk. We tried it two more time and >got the samething. Could anyone tell me what is going on here? Is there >a conflict with using FFS and ms-dos virtual files? PLEASE! > Try unlinking the drive before rebooting the machine. If you don't then the file WILL become corrupt. If the Amiga or the PC crashes before you've unlinked your partition, your only option is to create a new partition and copy everything over. If you are careful however, and only read from the drive (never write to it) then you can use the partition without worrying about either machine crashing. I usually do this by setting up the a partition for all of my utilities, and then unlinking the disk. After that I only use a temporary partition, or the floppy drives for changing data, and keep the utilities partition prisitine. > > Cheers, > Stuart Not so much cheer for me. This is an absurd state of affairs from my viewpoint. Why not give the IBM side a physical partition on the hard-drive, or its own ram-disk? I've spent hours of wasted time copying files from distorted jlinked partitions only to find that the ones I really needed were corrupt. It isn't really neccessary to make the partitions impossible to close if the PC locks up... I would really rather not have to buy a separate harddrive and controller for the PC side. Grrrr. -ss _____________________________________________________________ /V\ Sully set the example: to fly without moving. We shall ' learn to soar on wings of thought. And the student will surpass the teacher. To Quote the immortal Socrates: "I drank what?" -Sullivan _____________________________________________________________ Mail to: ...sun!portal!cup.portal.com!Sullivan or Sullivan@cup.portal.com