rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (the Wizard of Speed and Time) (12/08/89)
Query - I have a SyQuest SQ555 removable platter drive. My question is this: is each 40 meg disk cartridge an AmigaDOS device or an AmigaDOS volume (assume that each disk only has one partition - namely the whole disk). Also, how would I use diskcopy to copy between cartridges? -- Rich Carreiro - Most Biased Boston Celtics Fan! "So long, farewell, and may ARPA: rlcarr@space.mit.edu the forces of evil become UUCP: ...!mit-eddie!space.mit.edu!rlcarr confused on the way to your BITNET: rlcarr@space.mit.edu door!" - George Carlin
lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) (12/15/89)
In <1989Dec8.143424.17066@athena.mi>, rlcarr@athena.mit.edu (the Wizard of Speed and Time) writes: >Query - >I have a SyQuest SQ555 removable platter drive. My question is this: >is each 40 meg disk cartridge an AmigaDOS device or an AmigaDOS volume >(assume that each disk only has one partition - namely the whole disk). A cartridge is a volume. A device is either (a) the driver that handles the hardware, or (b) the physical unit, depending on the context of the conversation. Think of the cartridges as floppy disks for purposes of talking to them from a program or within command lines. The one thing to wacth out for is to make absolutely sure that you never switch cartridges without running 'diskchange' unless asked to switch from a program. >Also, how would I use diskcopy to copy between cartridges? diskcopy VolX: VolY: This is the same syntax as you would use to do a diskcopy with a single floppy drive. You will have to swap the disks a number of times dependent upon the amount of memory diskcopy allocates for its buffer. The two volumes must have the same geometry, ie. same number of cylinders, heads, and sectors per track, as specified in the mountlist or the setup program. -larry -- " All I ask of my body is that it carry around my head." - Thomas Alva Edison - +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+