On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Brian Skreeg wrote:
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Apr 29 16:43:06 1997 > > X-ApparentlyTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 19:27:13 -0200 (GMT+2) > > From: Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Reply-To: Nicola Bernardelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Brian Skreeg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: Debian List <debian-user@lists.debian.org> > > Subject: Re: Amiga Filesystem mounting bother. > > In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > X-UIDL: 179f80f31b22629d9ef130200f90548d > > > I couldn't try anything with FFS yet (anything but some floppies I > > could not mount, see my question below), but I think there is a chance > > that you should try mounting each single partition on a single mount > > point, as you do with any partitioned disk, that is: NOT /dev/hdd but > > /dev/hdd1, /dev/hdd2, /dev/hdd3, /dev/hdd4. > > Nope, the problem is definitely the kernel not recognising the partition > table on bootup. So god knows whats wrong. I`m gonna rip the drive out, > shove it back in the miggie and analyse the drive with reorg. Possibly > the old AFS filesystem I was using on a couple of partitions has rearranged > the parition table. > > > > QUESTION: which filesystem is on Amiga FLOPPIES? > > Now your question made me curious and I tried mounting some Amiga 600 > > floppies, say just the Workbench ones and not games, to be sure not to be > > dealing with strange filesystems. (Actually, I have a communication > > package for Amiga here on the PC, I got it from a BBS, and it would be > > nice to give it to my brother's Amiga just via floppy.) I tried both the > > following: > > > > mount -t affs /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > Amiga formatted floppy disks (ffs for an A600) cannot be read by any > machine other than an Amiga without some extra hardware. This is due > to an inferiority in PC floppy controllers. ;) > > > Actually, the affs filesystem support here is currently configured as > > a module, but this works quite fine for hpfs and msdos (and a lot of other > > things such as PPP). Just to be sure, after I send this message I > > immediately try rebuilding the kernel with affs support 'Y' and not just > > 'M'odule. But the answer is probably that floppies do have another kind of > > filesystem and you won't see any appendix to this message with "it works" > > inside. In fact, the problem is that the Amiga doesn't use the partition tables as linux or ms-do$,but uses what is called the Rigid Disk Block You can find a patch for the kernel to recognise the RDB when mounting an amiga hd,called jb-affs-1.0 (can be found at tsx11.mit.edu) ...sorry for the way I talk .... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
