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- TEAC SCSI FLOPPY FORMAT DOC July 2/91
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- TSFFx.doc for x ={1,2,4} Copyright 1991 by Harvey Taylor
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- What it is
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- The TEAC SCSI Floppy needs to have its floppies formatted by the
- SCSI controller. This is accomplished by sending an appropriate
- MODE_SELECT and then a FORMAT command via SCSI Direct.
- If things seem okay, TSFFx will prompt you to hit <RETURN>.
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- Command Lines
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- You must run TSFFx from the CLI.
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- TSFF4 ? /* Prints format */
- TSFF2 /* USES DEFAULTS */
- TSFF1 scsi.device 3
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- The template is TFFx [xxx.device scsi_id]
- The defaults are harddisk.device and 1
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- Examples
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- To use the drive with a 4 Meg disk
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- 1) Mount SD4:
- eg. use the command line
- 1> Mount SD4:
- 2) SCSI Format with TSFF4
- eg.
- 1> TSFF2
- 3) AmigaDOS Format
- eg.
- 1> Format drive SD4: name Test.0 noicons quick
- 4) Test if the system sees it
- eg. use the command line
- 1> info
- 1> list sd4:
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- 5) If you wanted an MSDOS disk (under CrossDos[see note 1])
- you would use mformat instead.
- eg.
- 1> Mount SI4:
- 1> TSFF4
- 1> Mformat drive si4: name Mtest.0 quick
- 1> info
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- Note 1 I have not tried MSH: I don't know if it will work.
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- Gotchas
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- It is very easy to corrupt disks because the FastFileSystem [or the
- MSDOSFileSystem] has no way of knowing if you have changed disks. You
- either have to be very careful about doing DISKCHANGEs or use TSFADC.
- This is a daemon which does occasional Test Unit Readys. If there is a
- change in the SCSI status, it sends a disk change packet to the
- handler.
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- Email Addr
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- Harvey Taylor Meta Media Productions
- uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Harvey_Taylor
- a186@mindlink.bc.ca
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- The TSF suite and documentation is all Copyright 1991 by Harvey Taylor
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