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.

[ZeBeeDee]

AFAIK All the relevant information is written to the drive during the partitioning and formatting processes to keep prying eyes and typing fingers away.

[A4000_Mad]

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)

[A4000_Mad]

If the problem is that your hard drive has lost its partition information, you might be able to recover it with some program.

I lost mine and was saved by a great program by Thomas :-) :pint:

http://aminet.net/search?query=RDBRecov

NOTE:- THIS WAS FOR A PFS3 (Perfect File System 3) HARD DRIVE THOUGH!!

[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:

[ZeBeeDee]

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), drop a copy in your C: folder and see if by loading it directly after the SETPATCH command it helps any.

A word of caution though ... It might crash the system as it's not written for the A1200, it might not - Can't test as I have no WB1.3 here.

[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?

[A4000_Mad]

kreciu wrote:

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:

Actually, I recently learned that you can add a FAT formatted hard drive to your Amiga and use Giggledisk to create a mountlist for it.

To jog my brain cell I just used Giggledisk to create a mountlist for a 2GB Jaz disk in RAM by typing:-

Giggledisk oktagon.device 5 TO RAM:

(The 2GB Jaz drive is on an Oktagon SCSI card so it's 'oktagon.device' and its Unit number is 5)

Prehaps that'll be of some help mate :-)

[ZeBeeDee]

Are you using OS3.9?

No? then try my solution in my previous post

[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!!

[ZeBeeDee]

From what I can gather then, the solution is already there.

Load up HDTools, look at the partitions and see if the buffers are set any higher than between 30-50 per partition. If the values differ then change them and save the new partition info out (you should not lose any data) and there you go, problem solved!

AFAIK ... As Far As I Know  :-)

All your internet acronyms explained - here  :-)