| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 4868.1 | Rigid Disk Blocks | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Wed Jul 03 1991 01:42 | 16 |
| Re: .0
> Are MOUNTLIST entries used for the SCSI drives on AmigaDOS 2.0 at all?
Starting with AmigaDOS 1.3, mountlist entries are unneeded for any type of
bootable device under a controller that supports the rigid disk block standard.
Part of the information contained in the rigid disk blocks (the partition
information stored on cylinder zero of the disk) is all of the information
needed to construct a mountlist entry. During the autoconfig process,
the controller reads that information and does the equivalent of a Mount
command.
That is why you can move a formatted and partitioned disk from one
disk controller to another and have the system recognize the partitions
automatically when the system boots.
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| 4868.2 | | IAMNRA::SULLIVAN | Red hair & black leather: my favorite color scheme | Wed Jul 03 1991 12:25 | 6 |
| Only one small problem can creep up... what happens when the RDB gets blown?
A mountlist can be a wonderful backup...
Thanks,
-SES
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| 4868.3 | Use Mr. Meyer's "MountList" program to make a backup! | CRISTA::CAPRICCIO | Stuck in the H�2�Whoa | Wed Jul 03 1991 15:12 | 13 |
| � Only one small problem can creep up... what happens when the RDB gets blown?
� A mountlist can be a wonderful backup...
That's where Randy's excellent MOUNTLIST program comes in handy.
Discussed elsewhere, it will create a "mountlist" after reading the
information in the RDB for a given device (that's been previously
mounted).
Question is, will it work under AmigaDOS 2.0? (or will the updated
readme.txt explain that? ;^)
Pete
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| 4868.4 | The Mountlist Program | TLE::RMEYERS | Randy Meyers | Wed Jul 03 1991 16:11 | 28 |
| Re: .3
To save some people some time:
Mountlist is available from TLE""::UPORT$:[RMEYERS.TRADE.AMIGA]MOUNTLIST.ZOO;1
The Mountlist program writes to the the standard output a mountlist
entry for any device. For example, if you say:
mountlist dh0:
It will display a mountlist entry for dh0:. In order to have the
security of having a mountlist for my hard disk, I gave the command
mountlist >>devs:mountlist dh0: dh1: dh2: dh4:
And the additional entries were appended to my mountlist file.
> Question is, will it work under AmigaDOS 2.0? (or will the updated
> readme.txt explain that? ;^)
I'd like to be able to find out. I suspect that the system data structures
that I am relying upon are fairly stable. The only problem I would anticipate
is that AmigaDOS 2.0 might have some additional mountlist parameters that
my program doesn't know about. Commodore did design the "environment
vector" for devices to be able to grow with additional information at the
end.
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| 4868.5 | | BAGELS::BRANNON | Dave Brannon | Wed Jul 03 1991 16:17 | 9 |
| the other way is to have the disk controller software write the RDB
info to a file (assuming it will do that). The Hardframe software
can write a mountlist with the extra info it needs to create an RDB.
That way you can use it as a mountlist for manually mounting the
partitions or to recreate the RDB.
I use Randy's program to sanity check that it did that correctly.
Dave
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