Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!iscuva!ricks From: ricks@iscuva.ISCS.COM (Rick Schaeffer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Format & FFS problems? Message-ID: <2214@iscuva.ISCS.COM> Date: 8 Dec 88 05:19:49 GMT References: <380007@hpdml93.HP.COM> Organization: ISC Systems Corporation, Spokane, WA Lines: 29 In article <380007@hpdml93.HP.COM> rodger@hpdml93.HP.COM (Rodger Anderson) writes: >Well, after having 1.3 laying around for two weeks, I though it was time to >install it on my hard drive. The problems I had, let me tell you! (Thats >what we are here for, isn't it? :-) Here is my setup: > > 2000B Amiga with 1.2 roms > 2090 hard disk controller (with the latest hddisk, as far as I know) > 3650 40 Meg miniscribe > >To make a long story a little shorter, I had two problems with format, not >counting the times it gurued. > >The first problem: Format would print out the line "formating cyl 2, 400 ^^^^^^ The fact that format tells you that it is starting at cylinder 2 tells me that your Mountlist entry for the FFS partition is wrong. You must tell Prep where your first partition ends...it ASSUMES that the first partition begins on cylinder 2. If you tell prep that the first partition ends on cylinder 2...then you have to start your FFS partition on cylinder 3. The first partition cannot be FFS. At least that worked for me and I have the same setup as you except that my drive is an ST251 40 megger. -- Rick Schaeffer UUCP: uunet!iscuva!ricks ISC Systems Corp. ricks@iscuva.ISCS.COM Box TAF-C8 Phone: (509)927-5114 Spokane, WA 99220