| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Hi Freaks,
There is an easy way to partionize your Floppy (not only your harddisk!)
You must add the following to your Mountlist, if you have one external drive.
DF2: Device = trackdisk.device
Unit = 1
Flags = 1
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
PreAlloc = 11
Interleave = 0
Lowcyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 39
Buffers = 20
BufMemType = 3
#
DF3: Device = trackdisk.device
Unit = 1
Flags = 1
Surfaces = 2
BlocksPerTrack = 11
Reserved = 2
PreAlloc = 11
Interleave = 0
Lowcyl = 40 ; Highcyl = 79
Buffers = 20
BufMemType = 3
#
After this you must Mount your 'drives' with 'MOUNT df2:' and 'MOUNT df3:'.
Now you can format each partion.
Result: You have two logical drives on you external Floppy with 440 Kb each
partion.
From another mad AMIGA-Freak,
Jochen.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1748.1 | Yes, but why? | AYOV10::ATHOMSON | C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie | Thu Oct 06 1988 11:49 | 11 |
| 1748.2 | why??...why not. | MVCAD3::BAEDER | D. Scott DTN 237-2961 SHR1-3/E19 | Thu Oct 06 1988 17:49 | 3 |
I agrre...WHY??, but I think that if you use df1: to access the
external drive, it's as norman...df2/3 wuold be the "funky" floppy.
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| 1748.3 | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Thu Oct 06 1988 21:35 | 6 | |
re: why?
maybe it will allow you to diskcopy from a 40 track 5.25" disk to
3.5" media (backup two 5.25" disks on one 3.5" disk)
-dave
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| 1748.4 | It does work. | AYOV10::ATHOMSON | C'mon, git aff! /The Kelty Clippie | Fri Oct 07 1988 07:25 | 16 |
| 1748.5 | Maybe not so useful after all... | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Fri Oct 07 1988 21:12 | 13 |
Re: .3 For DiskCopy to copy a disk to another, both disks must be of the same size and same type. I suspect that would prevent DiskCopy from 5.25 inch disks to a 3.5 inch partition. Re: .4 >I didn't try it but I felt that if I had tried to write to a regular >disk in df1: it would have been trashed. I would have been. | |||||
| 1748.6 | disk-error | KBOMFG::HAUCK | Fri Oct 21 1988 10:29 | 5 | |
Another use for this disk-splitting:
If you have a disk with a hard-error the you can use the other part
of the disk.
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