"Assign Df0: dismount" But Kick 1.3

Retro1234 · 21 December 2006, 13:08

Can anyone tell me of any tools to Dismount df0: on 1.3?

thor · 21 December 2006, 13:12

"assign df0: remove"?

Retro1234 · 21 December 2006, 13:15

Top Man! Yes that is It

musashi5150 · 21 December 2006, 13:17

Just out of interest (as I'm too lazy to look it up / try it) when you dismount something does AmigaDOS free up any buffers that were assigned to the device in a mountlist? And ones added afterwards with AddBuffers?

I think the answer might be 'yes' but thought I'd ask for definate

thor · 21 December 2006, 13:21

No. DOS Manual 1.3 and 3.1 says the device is just removed from the list, nothing freed.

ppill · 21 December 2006, 13:27

Here's the readme file for a little tool to unmount devices:

Quote:

Short: Device unmounting tool (with source)
Author: Marek 'March' Szyprowski <marek@amiga.pl>
Type: disk/misc
Version: 0.1
Architecture: ppc-morphos, m68k-amigaos
Status: freeware

This is simple tool to unmount specified device. It should be considered as a
little hack, because AmigaOS does not have a clean way to completely unmount a
device and free all its resources. However, in most cases it should work.

It has been tested with the following filesystems:
* Ext2FS (works)
* SGIXFS (works)
* NTFS (works)
* FAT95 (works)
* FFS (works)
* SFS (does not work, SFS lacks support for ACTION_DIE packet)

So I guess resources are not freed with a simple assign drive: remove

musashi5150 · 21 December 2006, 13:30

Cool, thanks guys - info noted for future reference

andreas · 06 January 2007, 04:56

Well, I remember that assign drive: remove is NOT as powerful as assign drive: dismount! assign remove will sometimes give up, i. e. some drives won't be removed!
assign dismount (KS 2.04 + only!) can be real brutal if the user wishes so, though; even pull the rug out from under the device(s), so to speak

USE WITH CAUTION.

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