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How do I mount a 500MB FAT16 volume?
I have created a hardfile and formated it with MS-DOS on PCTask, but now I cant mount the volume to make it visible on AmigaOS. I have tried to use the tool that come with PCTask to mount it automatically, and even tried to edit my own mountlist, without luck.
I do know that I need to use the CrossDos handler for that, but the problem that I have is to decipher the parameters that I need to use for the blocks, sectors, cylinders and so on. Can anyone show for me how do I can find these values on my hardfile? Last edited by Leandro Jardim; 04 February 2016 at 01:19. |
04 February 2016, 11:03 | #2 |
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I vaguely remember having problems with this when the partition was larger than a certain size. It was certainly possible with a mountlist and the geometry information from HDToolbox though. I can check my own mountlists later on and see if I still have the info on my A1200...
Couple of things to check: Does it work with the Fat95 filesystem instead of CrossDOS? And is the entire partition within the first 4GB of the hard drive? PC-Task had issues with partitions above the 4GB mark I seem to remember... |
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Actually, GiggleDisk might be worth a look too - it looks like it does all the hard work for you: http://aminet.net/package/disk/misc/giggledisk
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Well, I've checked and I don't have the PC partition any more. The mountlist is very simple however, looks like the lowcyl and highcyl are just the values from HDToolbox times the blocksize (512), and L:CrossDOSFileSystem is the filesystem. It used to work anyway...
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Yes, this should work fine with FAT95 file system, just check it out on Aminet
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I used to use mountdos which worked very well for zip disks.
It is on aminet. |
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I'm not sure what he means either, wait until he replies, he might surprise us both
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Eh eh, what I meant is a hardfile partition, well it's an IDE hardfile with a single 500 MB partition on the first 4 GB of data. So it's not an standard UAE one (which doesn't use a RDB). I think that if I did the things correctly as it should be done, there shouldn't be any difference between that hardfile or a real harddisk, or even a partition in the middle of another hardfile, am I right? |
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In order to use the tool which comes with PCTask you first have to install hardfile.device to Devs:, then the hardfile has to be named as Hardfile0 and stored in a directory which has HF: assigned to it (so that you can refer to it as HF:Hardfile0).
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Inception-tastic! So, it's a UAE hardfile that the emulated Amiga sees as a genuine, standard hard drive, and on that you've got a RDB, and a 500MB partition you've set up with HDToolbox. Is that right?
One thing I noticed when I was checking out my setup is that both mountlists I had for two different MS-DOS partitions were around 460MB each. Perhaps 500MB is too large to mount under FAT16? I vaguely remember having a reason for picking 460MB as a partition size instead of anything larger. |
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I tried giggledisk but I could not mount the partition with it. The file system which that tool uses is CrossDos. I noticed that when I boot Workbench the drive (DH2) is already mounted, but Workbench doesnt show the disk icon and AmigaShell can't read any files therein. So I dismounted it first, and tried pasting the fat95 file system name on the mount list that giggledisk generates, and remount that device but it didnt work. |
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Reserved = 1 in the mountlist ?
If your hd image has been made with PC-Task, the first block (512 bytes) is to be ignored, fat95 or crossdos can't decode this block. |
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