Tom Claydon: ASTLC@alaska.bitnet;, (01/05/89)
I would appreciate it if someone would send me a sample MountList for using FFS on internal/external floppy drives (DF0: and DF1:) Thanks! -------------- Tom Claydon Student, University of Alaska Anchorage ASTLC@ALASKA.BITNET
stan@hpcvca.HP.COM (Stan Gibbs) (01/07/89)
I would also be interested in a sample Mountlist, but I wonder if FFS will really benefit a floppy based system. Will much improvement in transfer rates be seen if one changes over to FFS? I have also heard that there are some disadvantages to using FFS with floppies related to having to inform the file system that a floppy has been removed or inserted in a drive. Is that correct? Stan stan@hp-pcd.hp.com
mjm@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Michael Murphy) (01/10/89)
In article <6222@louie.udel.EDU> Tom Claydon: ASTLC@alaska.bitnet;, writes: > > I would appreciate it if someone would send me a sample MountList for >using FFS on internal/external floppy drives (DF0: and DF1:) Thanks! Kinda related, has anyone gotten AutoDiskChange to work? (It was posted a few weeks ago, i can't remember offhand who submitted it). I have the mountlist that was posted with it, and i have FFS working on all my floppies, but the AutoDiskChange gives me an error message ("AutoDiskchange failed, return code 20" or something like that). I have Arplib in libs: like it says. My system is A1000 512k, Insider 1Meg expansion, Amiga 5-1/4" external drive, Supra 4x4, Seagate ST277N. Thanks for any info, Michael Murphy mjm@manatee.cis.ufl.edu
sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (01/10/89)
In article <19613@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> mjm@manatee.cis.ufl.edu (Michael Murphy) writes: >Kinda related, has anyone gotten AutoDiskChange to work? (It was posted a few >weeks ago, i can't remember offhand who submitted it). I have the mountlist >that was posted with it, and i have FFS working on all my floppies, but the >AutoDiskChange gives me an error message ("AutoDiskchange failed, return code >20" or something like that). I have Arplib in libs: like it says. My system >is A1000 512k, Insider 1Meg expansion, Amiga 5-1/4" external drive, Supra 4x4, >Seagate ST277N. The first time I tried FFS on floppies, the disk drives would just click whenever I tried to format them with the FFS option. Eventually, format returned with an error. I don't know what I did different the second time, but it seems to work now. I have an A1000 with 512K. I don't mount FF0: and FF1: at bootup because it takes up so much ram. Instead, I have a shell alias called "ffs" that mounts FF0: and FF1: and fires up autodiskchange. If I had the memory, I would have a FFS floppy mounted all the time simply because it does run faster, and you can hold more on a disk. On a related note: Has anyone had trouble running virusx and formatting floppies at the same time? Sometimes I've had disk errors and sometimes I get a guru. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet *** Who sometimes never learns. {backbone site|rutgers|uunet}!ukma!sean *** U of K, Lexington Kentucky, USA ..where Christian movies are banned. *** ``My name is father. You killed my die. Prepare to Inigo Montoya.''