erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks) (03/29/88)
[ Backwards compatible line for line eater ] I just saw a review of KS/WB 1.3 in some magazine (not AC or AmigaWORLD), and I had a few questions. The magazine had a picture of an open workbench window and a new preferences screen, and reviewed KS/WB 1.3, gamma _4_. The article claimed that you could _reboot_ the recoverable ram disk; I had a sick idea. I know that you can't mount the boot device under the FFS, since you need to read the file-system handler from the L: directory during a MOUNT command, and that if you boot from DF0:, the system automagically mounts all 3.5" disks for you (under SFS). If you boot from RAM: (called CARD: under gamma 4), or from DH0:, do the 3.5" floppies automatically mount? Can you mount the 3.5" floppies under FFS? I want to use _real_ 512 byte blocks for archive floppies, not 512 byte blocks with label space in each block. I realize that the extra space is >5%, but free space is free space. Thanks, -ethan -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in Specialized Software| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. 2101 Iuka Ave. | ## Columbus OH 43201 | ###### "You get it, you're closer."
dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (03/29/88)
>gamma 4), or from DH0:, do the 3.5" floppies automatically mount? Can you >mount the 3.5" floppies under FFS? I want to use _real_ 512 byte blocks for From what I understand, FFS currently supports only fixed media... That is, non-removeable media. I.E. a hard drive. -Matt
spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS]) (03/29/88)
Recently on *comp.sys.amiga.tech* erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks) wrote: ...I just saw a review of KS/WB 1.3 in some magazine (not AC or AmigaWORLD), and That's Sentry Magazine. Good Scoop for them, terrible article. ...sick idea. I know that you can't mount the boot device under the FFS, since ...you need to read the file-system handler from the L: directory during a MOUNT ...command, and that if you boot from DF0:, the system automagically mounts all ...3.5" disks for you (under SFS). If you boot from RAM: (called CARD: under ...gamma 4), or from DH0:, do the 3.5" floppies automatically mount? CARD: (name may change) is not in place of RAM:, but instead in addition to. CARD: (or RAD:, Recoverable Amiga Disk) is a fixed size drive, and takes all memory it will ever use at mount time, so RAM: is still VERY necessary, it is also very FIXED under 1.3. Yes, the floppies are automatically mounted (rom based, yeh know?) ...mount the 3.5" floppies under FFS? I want to use _real_ 512 byte blocks for ...archive floppies, not 512 byte blocks with label space in each block. I ...realize that the extra space is >5%, but free space is free space. Well, there are some problems here, the answer is, yes, you can mount the floppies again and have two device names with seperate information kept about each. If you mount a standard floppy as FD1: with all the same info as it currently has, it will work just fine, only if you write to FD1: and then read from DF1:, the bitmap for DF1: will be corrupt. So, you could infact mount FD1: with the FastFileSystem, but (and this is the big "but"), the current FastFileSystem, will not support automatic disk ejection recognition. So, either you can never eject the disk, or you have to issue the diskchange command for every time you remove a floppy. And ofcourse, you can't use DF1: without changing floppies, and LOTS of software only knows how to look for DFn: ... The above is not sanctioned by Amiga/Commodore. ... ...-ethan -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Randy Spencer P.O. Box 4542 Berkeley CA 94704 (415)222-7595 spencer@mica.berkeley.edu I N F I N I T Y BBS: (415)222-9416 ..ucbvax!mica!spencer s o f t w a r e AAA-WH1M -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-