Sullivan@cup.portal.com (kevin lee smathers) (10/31/88)
Here is the mountlist that I've been using with my Pacific Peripherals
controller. I haven't had any troubles to date. (It is substantially
the same as yours however, so I don't think that this is the problem.
Never the less here it is for reference) :
/* An example mount entry using the fast file system with a partition
of the hard disk using the 2090 disk controller. PREP has been
used to create the first partition (up to cylinder 20). The second
partition is MOUNTed, using the following entry:
(The hard disk is not included; this is only an example.)
*/
dh0: device = overdrive.device
unit = 1
flags = 0
surfaces = 6
blockspertrack = 26
reserved = 2
interleave = 0
lowcyl = 1 ; highcyl = 20
buffers = 5
bufmemtype = 3
#
dh1: Device = overdrive.device
FileSystem = l:FastFileSystem
Unit = 1
Flags = 0
Surfaces = 6
BlocksPerTrack = 26
Reserved = 2
Interleave = 0
LowCyl = 21 ; HighCyl = 608
Buffers = 5
GlobVec = -1
BufMemType = 3
#
>I have a Seagate ST157N hard disk attached to the hard card. I
>formatted the drive with two partitions: one with the standard file
>system, and one with the Fast File System (FFS). The partition with
>the standard file system works fine. But every time I try to copy
>files from a floppy disk drive to the FFS partition, the Amiga
>crashes; sometimes it freezes up, other times it gurus. (If I try to
>copy files from the standard hard disk partition to the FFS partition,
>that also causes gurus, but only intermittently.)
These are the only significant changes. Your mountlist adds these
new variables.
>
> Mount = 0
> StackSize = 0x800
> MaxTransfer = 127000
> #
>
>
I know I haven't really told you very much. Still your controller should work
just as well as mine, assuming that you don't have any hardware problems. I've
been running a beta version of FFS for the last 4 months without any problems
(other than the well known s/w bugs of this version.)
I do mount both dh0 and dh1 in my startup-sequence. You might want to try
formatting the entire drive as a FFS partition if you don't care about autoboot.
Here for reference is also my startup-sequence. Good luck...
mount dh1:
dh1:c/assign sys: dh1:
sys:c/assign c: sys:c
sys:c/assign t: ram:
cd dh1:
execute s/startup
endcli >nil:
-Sullivan Segall
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