[comp.sys.amiga] making FFS work with a Pacific Peripherals OverDrive

sdl@linus.UUCP (Steven D. Litvintchouk) (11/14/88)

My thanks to all those who responded to my request for help in getting
FFS to work with my Pacific Peripherals Overdrive & ST157 Seagate disk.

I received several suggestions on what sort of mountlist entry to use.
After some experimentation, I find that the following mountlist entry
(for a partition called dh1:) seems to work OK.  So I'm posting it
here, just in case other people have encountered similar problems.
Note that the MaxTransfer parameter value of 4096 is higher than what
I was advised to use.  So if you encounter problems, try setting it
even lower.  Note also that the LowCyl and HighCyl values are specific
to the partition I'm defining; your values may be different:



     DH1:	Device = overdrive.device
	     Unit = 1
	     Flags = 0
	     Surfaces = 6
	     BlocksPerTrack = 26
	     Reserved = 2
	     Interleave = 0
	     LowCyl = 57  ;  HighCyl = 607
	     Buffers = 5
	     BufMemType = 2
	     MaxTransfer = 4096
	     GlobVec = -1
	     FileSystem = L:FastFileSystem
	     Mount = 1
	     DosType = 0x444F5301
	     Mask = 0x7FFFF
     #



Steven Litvintchouk
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