MountList for my 120MB Quantum HD for A1000

[Thomas]

I am not sure what you are asking for. All needed information is shown in the screen shot. It even has the correct syntax. You only need to copy & paste it into the mountlist.

Why do you ask for HDToolbox? You can only use either a mountlist or HDToolbox, not both(*). You say that the software is "pre-FFS" (whatever that means) so I'd suppose that the controller is not RDB-compatible and thus HDToolbox wouldn't be of any help anyway. Anyhow, HDToolbox of WB 2.1 does work on Kick 1.3.

(*) well, you could use both, but you have to be very careful to not create overlapping partitions

[Thomas]

You should only use the lines which contain a '=' sign.


Edit: here is a mountlist made from the screenshot with lines added to use FFS:

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DH0:
     Device         = StarDrive.device
     Unit           = 4
     Flags          = 0
     Surfaces       = 1
     BlocksPerTrack = 173
     Interleave     = 0
     Reserved       = 2
     BufMemType     = 0
     Buffers        = 30
     LowCyl         = 0
     HighCyl        = 459
     FileSystem     = l:FastFileSystem
     GlobVec        = -1
     DosType        = 0x444F5301
     Mount          = 1
#

DH1:
     Device         = StarDrive.device
     Unit           = 4
     Flags          = 0
     Surfaces       = 1
     BlocksPerTrack = 173
     Interleave     = 0
     Reserved       = 2
     BufMemType     = 0
     Buffers        = 30
     LowCyl         = 460
     HighCyl        = 919
     FileSystem     = l:FastFileSystem
     GlobVec        = -1
     DosType        = 0x444F5301
     Mount          = 1
#

DH2:
     Device         = StarDrive.device
     Unit           = 4
     Flags          = 0
     Surfaces       = 1
     BlocksPerTrack = 173
     Interleave     = 0
     Reserved       = 2
     BufMemType     = 0
     Buffers        = 30
     LowCyl         = 920
     HighCyl        = 1379
     FileSystem     = l:FastFileSystem
     GlobVec        = -1
     DosType        = 0x444F5301
     Mount          = 1
#


[Thomas]

C:Format should work nicely.

Actually it is Sys:System/Format.

You should use the quick option with it because you already low-level formatted the drive and the format command cannot reformat it anyway.

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format drive dh0: name MyFirstPartition ffs noicons quick

[Thomas]

I am quite sure that the PFS3 tools need Kick 2.0+

Also I don't know if the WB 1.3 format program is able to format foreign file systems. So if pfsformat does not run on WB 1.3, you are a bit lost...

[Thomas]

I just tried it and it's like I said: the normal Format program of WB 1.3 is not able to format a PFS partition and sfsformat does not run on Kick 1.3. So there is no way to use PFS3 on Kick 1.3 without preparing the harddrive on a Kick 2.0+ machine first.


Edit: here is the mountlist changed to use PFS3aio if you want to try it anyway:

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SDH0:
     Device         = StarDrive.device
     Unit           = 4
     Flags          = 0
     Surfaces       = 1
     BlocksPerTrack = 173
     Interleave     = 0
     Reserved       = 2
     BufMemType     = 0
     Buffers        = 30
     LowCyl         = 0
     HighCyl        = 459
     FileSystem     = l:pfs3_aio-handler
     GlobVec        = -1
     DosType        = 0x50465303
     Mount          = 1
#

SDH1:
     Device         = StarDrive.device
     Unit           = 4
     Flags          = 0
     Surfaces       = 1
     BlocksPerTrack = 173
     Interleave     = 0
     Reserved       = 2
     BufMemType     = 0
     Buffers        = 30
     LowCyl         = 460
     HighCyl        = 919
     FileSystem     = l:pfs3_aio-handler
     GlobVec        = -1
     DosType        = 0x50465303
     Mount          = 1
#

SDH2:
     Device         = StarDrive.device
     Unit           = 4
     Flags          = 0
     Surfaces       = 1
     BlocksPerTrack = 173
     Interleave     = 0
     Reserved       = 2
     BufMemType     = 0
     Buffers        = 30
     LowCyl         = 920
     HighCyl        = 1379
     FileSystem     = l:pfs3_aio-handler
     GlobVec        = -1
     DosType        = 0x50465303
     Mount          = 1
#


[Thomas]

I issued:

copy dh0:#? dh1: all clone quiet

...and it copied only files at the root level of the source disk, no subdirectories or their contents. Am I missing something?

Thanks.

In WB < 2.0 the copy command is a bit picky about its parameters. To copy a directory recursively, you specify the directory and not its contents.

So the correct command line is

copy dh0: dh1: all clone quiet

and not dh0:#?.