Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!andy
From: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: jh1 (bridgeboard harddisk problems)
Keywords: jh1 djmount bridgeboard dpformat
Message-ID: <4492@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 88 22:26:24 GMT
References: <880@ozvax.GWD.TEK.COM> <3090@tekig4.TEK.COM> <4483@cbmvax.UUCP> <3101@tekig4.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <3101@tekig4.TEK.COM> brianr@tekig4.TEK.COM (Brian Rhodefer) writes:
>
>  >>:  Me(original posting).  	 >: uunet!cbmvax!andy (replying).
>  unflagged:  Me (riposting).
>

>Among the information I filtered out for brevity's sake (assumed it
>was obvious) is that the reason I'm using a `Janus' harddrive for
>the amiga is that it lets me have a hard drive on BOTH the 8088 and
>68000 sides with only one physical device, (and only one cash outlay).
>Accordingly, I have a large chunk of this hard drive mounted as a MS-DOS
>filesystem (Bridgeboard's drive C:).  Only 39M of the drive's formatted
>capacity remained for the 68000 side, so that's how big JH0: was.

What an interesting approach to asking for help...leaving out information
for brevity's sake, assuming it was obvious.  I'll have to try that
approach in the future.

Here's an offer...why don't you sent me *exactly* what you did, each
step, and your *exact* hardware configuration, and your
*exact* parameters into FDISK and ADISK, and we'll look at
it and try to help you.  Complete information goes a long way
in cases like this.

>More importantly, why isn't the
>result of `dpformat' a usable disk drive?

Obviously, because something is wrong.  From the information
you've given me so far, all I *can* do is play guessing games,
based on the information you've given, and try to help.

>P.S.
>Contraction of "you are" == "you're".   (for future reference)
>Contraction of "it is"  ==  "it's".

What ?  I'm trying to help a person who posts a P.S. like that ?
I'm trying to help one of those people who assume that, if a typing mistake 
has been made, that the person on the other end doesn't know the correct form ?
Hmmm...trying to help usually turns out to be a complete waste of time
in these cases.

But, hey, sent the info email.  (Usually a request for email makes
them stop sending those 'oh so clever' spelling/grammer corrections
they make in an effort to show superiority over anyone foolish
enough to actually respond to the request for assistance)

-- 
andy finkel		{uunet|rutgers|amiga}!cbmvax!andy
Commodore-Amiga, Inc.

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