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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.
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- 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.
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- 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):
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- 1> MSDOSMount <devicename> <unit>
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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