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Article #2661Re: Hard drive formatting failure
From: Joe Smith
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 02:12
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1989 02:12
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In article <668@alias.UUCP> kpicott@alias.UUCP (Socrates) writes:
>The second and subsequent partitions are set to use the FastFileSystem.
>When I try to format them I get the error "Format failed. Handler not
>found.". I have checked with the local computer store and Commodore in
For devices, three things must match exactly. The name in the mountlist,
the name in the DEVS: directory, and the name stored internal to the
device handler itself. While AmigaDOS as a whole treats uppercase and
lowercase the same in file names, the devices are an execption.
You can use "type devs:hddrive.device hex" to verify the internal name.
Check the mountlist entry and the file name match exactly, including
capitalization. Also, make sure L:FastFileSystem exists with the right
name and is available at mount time.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!orc!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Hard drive formatting failure Summary: Check for lower case Message-ID: <862@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Date: 11 Dec 89 02:12:34 GMT References: <668@alias.UUCP> Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA Lines: 19