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I wish to apologise to the net for that signature, I am sharing this acct
with a friend and I forgot that that was put in the signature file.

How embarrasing :-)

Steve

In article <1990Dec14.195644.27027@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> crain@cpsin3.uucp (Steven Crain) writes:
>is there a way to get the FastFileSystem driver to work with trackdisk?
>(i.e. mount a FFS floppy drive)  Does 2.0 allow you to do this? (I have
>1.3)

You can mount the 1.3 FastFileSystem on a floppy via the mount command and
a suitable mountlist.  Just copy the default entry for RAD: and change
device to "trackdisk.device" and add Mask=0x7ffff to force the FS to do
all direct device access via CHIP buffers.

The 2.0 filesystem *IS* FastFileSystem with extensive changes made and
features added.  One of the main features is support for OFS format disks
(ie floppies) and full support for removable media.  Under 2.0 you can
format floppies in FFS mode and the ROM FS will automatically configure
itself to that format.  You can freely change between OFS and FFS format
just by inserting disks of that format in the drive.

	Steve

In article <16549@cbmvax.commodore.com> steveb@cbmvax.commodore.com (Steve Beats) writes:
>You can mount the 1.3 FastFileSystem on a floppy via the mount command and
>a suitable mountlist.  Just copy the default entry for RAD: and change
>device to "trackdisk.device" and add Mask=0x7ffff to force the FS to do
>all direct device access via CHIP buffers.

I forgot to add that you will have to manually run the Diskchange command
every time you change the floppy.  1.3 FS doesn't automatically recognise
diskchanges (because it was originally designed for non-removeable hard
drives).  You will also want to set BuffMemType to CHIP memory in the
MountList.

	Steve

>>You can mount the 1.3 FastFileSystem on a floppy via the mount command and
>>a suitable mountlist.  Just copy the default entry for RAD: and change
>>device to "trackdisk.device" and add Mask=0x7ffff to force the FS to do
>>all direct device access via CHIP buffers.
> 
> I forgot to add that you will have to manually run the Diskchange command
> every time you change the floppy.  1.3 FS doesn't automatically recognise
> diskchanges (because it was originally designed for non-removeable hard
> drives).  You will also want to set BuffMemType to CHIP memory in the
> MountList.

Or get "AutoDiskChange" a program that monitors for DISKCHANGE events
and then sends a DiskChange command to the drive.  Note that if you
dont Diskchange a FFS floppy under 1.3 you can seriously trash the
next disk...
 
> 	Steve
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Mark