peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (10/14/88)
In article <8810131005.AA13277@MATH.Tau.Ac.IL>, finkel@TAURUS.BITNET writes: > I've received a letter from a BITNET user on Germany who claims he has written > an MSDOS device/handler, but he did only the read part. he didn't manage to > write an MSDOS sector or track. All *right*. Now if he'd publish it, someone would hack that in in no time. > I also don't see why do you think you will need 'dosmount'. Convenience. I don't want to dedicate a drive to DOS, and there isn't an unmount command currently available. > You will have to get an 'unmount' command to prevent FileSystem from trying > to validate your MS-DOS disk when you insert it into DF0 or DF1 . Right, and another when you want to *stop* using the DOS format and use your amiga drive again (something to tell doshandler.device to go away). These are the commands I'm calling 'dosmount' and 'dosunmount'. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today?
andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) (10/15/88)
In article <2816@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >Right, and another when you want to *stop* using the DOS format and use your >amiga drive again (something to tell doshandler.device to go away). These >are the commands I'm calling 'dosmount' and 'dosunmount'. Why not just inhibit the handler you're not using ? -- andy finkel {uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy Commodore-Amiga, Inc. "People who post news as root probably have other bad habits, too." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) (10/16/88)
In article <4994@cbmvax.UUCP>, andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: > In article <2816@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: > >Right, and another when you want to *stop* using the DOS format and use your > >amiga drive again (something to tell doshandler.device to go away). These > >are the commands I'm calling 'dosmount' and 'dosunmount'. > Why not just inhibit the handler you're not using ? Fine. You still need a command you can type at "1>" that'll do the job. If I call that command "dosunmount" does it offend your sensibilities? I don't recall an "Inhibit" command in 1.2, and didn't see one mentioned in the article about 1.3. -- Peter da Silva `-_-' peter@sugar.uu.net Have you hugged U your wolf today?
mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst ) (10/27/88)
In article <4994@cbmvax.UUCP> andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel) writes: >In article <2816@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes: >>Right, and another when you want to *stop* using the DOS format and use your >>amiga drive again (something to tell doshandler.device to go away). These >>are the commands I'm calling 'dosmount' and 'dosunmount'. > >Why not just inhibit the handler you're not using ? Why not doing anything at all ? Usually, we have a AmigaDOS FileSystem on trackdisk-formatted disks. And we have MSDOS FileSystem on ibmdisk-formatted disks. (ibmdisk.device is nearly completed and reads/writes standard ibm mfm-format). Now, if you insert an AmigaDOS disk then AmigaDOS recognizes the disk and the MS-DOS handler says DFx:BAD and vice versa. You may say that this DFx:BAD is not nice (since the disk isn't really bad), but inhibiting the handler leads to a DFx:BUSY. That is not much difference on the display. An idea for kickstart 1.4: let the user hide unwanted disk icons. I have 4 partitions on my harddisk, RAM, RAD, 2 drives and my workbench screen is filled with icons. Michael van Elst E-mail: UUCP: ...uunet!unido!fauern!faui44!mlelstv