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Connecting MS-DOS Formatted Drives
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The MS-DOS program MSDOSMount is a utility program which allows volumes
formatted with an MSDOS compatible partition sector, to be addressed like a
normal AmigaDos disk drive on the AMIGA.
As a prerequisite for using the program, the CROSSDOS filesystem must be
located in the L directory of the boot drive. The CROSSDOS filesystem is
supplied with Workbench 3.x and should already be located in the L:
directory in standard installation. If this is not the case then please
copy the appropriate data file from the installation diskette to your hard
disk.
The MSDOSMount program can now be started from the Shell by giving the Unit
Number to be connected (the SCSI-ID of the device which should be connected
as MSDOS formatted volume):
1> MSDOSMount <devicename> <unit>
if, as in this example, the MSDOS formatted volume has the SCSI-ID 3. The
current Version 0.91 issues different values which have no meaning to the
user and which are processed further in a graphical user interface in
Version 1.0, to demonstrate possible faults.
With removable media, MSDOSMount automatically recognises if a new medium
has been inserted with the same geometry as the mounted medium. If,
however, you use a medium that displays another geometry (e.g. other
partitions) then MSDOS must be re-executed.
Due to the numerous possible format parameters of MSDOS computers it is
unfortunately not possible to format the volumes on the Amiga. If you want
to work with the MSDOSMount program for data exchange, the volume to be
used must be partitioned on an MSDOS compatible target system with the
program FDISK (check in the appropriate MSDOS documentation) and then
formatted under MSDOS.
Tech Support phase 5 digital products May 96