bjh@mtgzz.att.com (b.j.hudson) (02/01/89)
In <2191@van-bc.UUCP> (Larry Phillips) writes: >In the latest Transactor for the Amiga (Vol 1, issue 5 & 6), Don Curtis (Amiga >Dispatches), gives a procedure for running an Amiga FFS partition on a Janus >drive. Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321 I tried the updated procedure on my Sidecar JANUS drive and it seems to work. I think I will wait for JANUS 2.0 before I trust it for sure though. Since the first partition on my hard drive is for MS-DOS, I used the second partition (JH0:) for JANUS FFS. - ADISK reported partition 2 from cylinder 201 to 228 length 28. - DPFormat reported starting at 0 and ending at 25. - Watch early versions of Sectorama that can update to the wrong partition. - In the Mountlist I used low=0 and high cylinder= 25 (not 201 and 228). - A normal JANUS partition and a FFS JANUS can be on the same disk, but they cannot both be mounted. I guess I have to backup to floppies. - Yes, 4-5 times faster for big file reads and writes. Thanks! .....BJ BJ Hudson att!mtgzz!bjh
bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS) (02/07/89)
In article <4931@mtgzz.att.com> bjh@mtgzz.UUCP (b.j.hudson) writes: >In <2191@van-bc.UUCP> (Larry Phillips) writes: >>In the latest Transactor for the Amiga (Vol 1, issue 5 & 6), Don Curtis (Amiga >>Dispatches), gives a procedure for running an Amiga FFS partition on a Janus >>drive. Fm: Don Curtis/SYSOP 76703,4321 > >I tried the updated procedure on my Sidecar JANUS drive and it seems to work. >I think I will wait for JANUS 2.0 before I trust it for sure though. > I recommend DJMount as the ONLY way to mount Janus drives. The V2.0 command supports FFS. JDisk.device maps sector #'s and may do some things you are not expecting. Also if you delete a patition with adisk and forget to update your mountlist before you reboot..... *POOF* BK . -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Bill Koester (CATS) >>Commodore Amiga Technical Support<< Commodore International Ltd. UUCP {allegra|burdvax|rutgers|ihnp4}!cbmvax!bill PHONE (215) 431-9355 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The official word, is NO. I am therefore going anyway! Kirk - Star Trek III Pleese desrigard eny spealing airors!!!!!!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=