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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

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

4339.0. "Need help with 1.3 MSH (MessyDos)" by AISG::LANDINGHAM (Guy M., DLB5-3/E5, 291-9268) Sat Dec 08 1990 20:02

Can some kind soul out there who is using MSH please help me?

I acquired MSH v1.3 from fish disk 382.  I cannot seem to get it to work.  I
copied MessyFileSystem to L: and messydisk.device to DEVS:.  I'm trying to read
720K-formatted MS-DOS disks in drive 1.  Here is my Mountlist entry for that
drive:

/* Messy file system on messy blocks: */
MSH:	FileSystem = L:MessyFileSystem
	Device = messydisk.device
	Unit = 1
	Flags = 0
	LowCyl = 0 ; HighCyl = 79
	Surfaces = 2
	BlocksPerTrack = 9
	Buffers = 5
	DosType = 1
	BufMemType = 1	/* messydisk needs no chip mem */
	BootPri = 0
	Stacksize = 4096
	Priority = 5
	GlobVec  = -1
	Mount = 1
#

I copied this (I hope verbatim) from msh.man.  What happens is that I inserted
an MS-DOS disk in drive 1.  The drive clicks a few times (AmigaDOS trying to
read?) and then stops.  I then enter:
	1> mount msh:
which returns without error.  Then I enter:
	1> cd msh:
but all that happens is that a Retry/Cancel requester appears that says "Not a
DOS disk in Unit 1", which looks (to me) like AmigaDOS is still trying to read
the disk.

I hope someone can help me!

Thanks.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4339.1		AISG::LANDINGHAM	Guy M., DLB5-3/E5, 291-9268	`Sat Dec 08 1990 20:07`	6
	I forgot to mention: I have an A1000 I am running Arp I am not running FaccII Appreciate any help...
4339.2		GLUV01::COBURN	Growing older, but not up...	`Sun Dec 09 1990 22:15`	4
	Are you using AmigaDOS MOUNT or ARP MOUNT? There is suposedly some strange bug in ARP MOUNT. John
4339.3	More info...	AISG::LANDINGHAM	Guy M., DLB5-3/E5, 291-9268	`Mon Dec 10 1990 09:49`	10
	I am using Arp Mount, because I thought I read somewhere that that's what was needed. I went "back" to msh 1.5 and it sort of worked. That is, I was able to format a 720K MSDOS disk, CD to it, and copy files back and forth between AmigaDOS disks. However, when I tried to read the disk via Transformer, MSDOS reported data errors on the disk. I'll re-install the 1.3 version of MSH and try the AmigaDOS Mount command. Thanks for the help.
4339.4		BARD::mcafee	Steve McAfee	`Mon Dec 10 1990 12:53`	3
	You might want to mount msh: before you put the disk in. I'm not sure if it makes any difference, but some magic does seem to happen during disk validation...
4339.5	Version 1.5 works	FRSOLD::ZIMMERMANN		`Sat Jan 19 1991 13:42`	24
	moin, moin, during this afternoon i found the time to look 'against' my MSH V.130 problems. When version 1.5 comes out i had no problem getting it to work on all my internal and external drives (df0,df1,df2,df3; df2 is 5,25"). My problems started when i updgrated to version 1.30. It was crazy, BUT I CAN'T GET IT TO WORK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now i tried it again. But NO CHANCE. My mood becomes bad, more bad, bader ......GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR So i installed version 1.5 (THE OLDEST) again. AND IT WORKS !!! I have no idea why this is so, and there are no informations what has exactly changed, but only the first MSH-version works for me. I anybody out there who made the same experiences ?? Ralf ====
4339.6	Eventuall worked for me	BEEBLE::PATEL		`Mon Jan 21 1991 05:27`	5
	I had a lot of trouble getting version 1.30 working as well. Eventually I tracked down my problem to the fact that the mountlist had to have the line "RESERVED = 0 " in it. Once I put that in it all worked OK. Hope this helps.
4339.7		RAVEN1::HEFFELFINGER	Tut, tut. It looks like rain.	`Wed Aug 07 1991 01:38`	10
	Any A3000, OS 2.0 users able to make MSH1.3 properly? I've managed to create a condition where I can do directories and read files from the PC-DOS disk, but I'm unable to write to any of several DOS formatted disks. (DOS's 3.3 and 5.0 both) Anyone else seen this? -Gary