Easy question - mountlist for partition.

[kreciu]

Small question . Where I can find a mountlists for a particular partition?

You can ask your self, why I want to edit it if I can't find it . I will survive this process I hope my HDD to

[kreciu]

It suppose to be in Devs: ? Something like Devs:moutlist...

How to edit the mountlist for a partition like DH0: ?

I know how to do this for ZIP, or CD-rom but...

Should I create by mayself? And than modify it? But HDToolBox should create some of them? I really need to know this stuff.

[kreciu]

I would like to edit "buffmemtype" since I got info that by default, the buffers for the HDD are added using a chip memory, and I would like to set it for a fast ram. Just a small tuning of my HDD .

 

[kreciu]

A4000_Mad wrote:
To my knowledge HDToolBox takes care of everything. I've never noticed mountlists for the partitions of hard drives myself (only used them for Zip disks, Jaz disks Compact Flash cards and CDroms etc)

Exactly . But somewher thay sould be , or I suppose to create them??

DH0: Device = scsi.device
Handler = L:FastfileSystem
Unit = 0
Aces = 1
Blockspertrack = 512
Interleave = 1
Lowcyl = x  
Highcyl = y
Buffers = 15
Buffmemtype = 0 (here I would like to change it form 0 to 5)

Just make it, check the low and high cylinder in HDToolbox and copy to Devs:?
 :crazy:

[kreciu]

Ok, I assume that all the "drivers" in the computer suppose to  have this mountlist, even HDD "drives-partitions" and I agree that this stuff can be stored in RDB (make sense, what else could be there? ).

Is there any way to change this values of this parameters.

For example, we can add some buffers to the partition using:

C:addbuffers >NIL: DHO: 500 (and of coure I don't have to "edit" this mountlist! if I could I could skip that from SS)

Now I would like to add this addition memory/buffer from the FAST RAM not from the CHIP MEMORY. Is there any way to do this? How to reassign this parameter (buffmemtype), without accessing mountlist file?

Is there something I missing in HDToolBox etc...

[kreciu]

ZeBeeDee wrote:
They don't exist as a file on the HD so therefore you can't just create one in a text editor and expect it to become the norm. The values are assigned when you CREATE the partition and are written directly to the HD's Rigid Disk Block, not stored on the HD as a file.

The 'buffmemtype' option doesn't exist for HD's, only for add-on's like ZIP drives, CD-ROM's, etc.

One possible solution is to find a copy of FastMemFirst (WB 1.3 - System folder) and see if by running that after the SETPATCH command it helps any. It might crash the system, it might not - Can't test as I have no WB1.3 here.

So, what is it about?

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37476

especially the end part?

[kreciu]

@Astral

Changed the bufmemtype for all partitions to 5. There is now 2,02x,xxx bytes of chip mem on startup, which is about 1.9xmb. There is a bit of speed up as well.

Thanks Piru...

Did he CHANGE this for partitions?

 :crazy:

Citation from this topic:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37476

[kreciu]

ZeBeeDee wrote:
Nope, can't be done AFAIK ... try possible solution in my previous post.

So, what happen in this other "thread"? Yes, I'm using 3.9.

BTW.AFAIK what does it mean!!

[kreciu]

Thank you for patience.

I know how to change the size of buffer assigned to particular partition . C:addbuffers

I would like to change the memory from which this buffers are added from Chip to Fast ram. This is my "issue".

Thank you for explanation of AFAIK

[kreciu]

IJWTK

I will sent them PM so maybe they will "show me the way"...

OR ANYBODY?

[kreciu]

Yes, this program is good for "reading" what is in which partition.

Than the second program would be needed to "save" this in RDB of HDD.

Basically is like creating a HDToolBox but this kind were we could change ALL the "settings" of partition.

Unfortunately HDToolBox doesn't have this option what I'm looking for

I'm really curious how this worked for Astral? I hope he will answer my email, so we all could learn something.

Ps. And now, can anybody tell tham Amiga is "boring" computer? :-D

I just realized, that "mounting" drivers in Amiga is just "copying" them from Devs: to Storage: (or somewhere!).

EDIT: I need program like RDB-Salv, but this one is not freeware.
EDIT: Are you sure that this can't be done from HDToolBox?