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CrossDOS SyQuest?

    26-May-93 19:47:14
Sb: CrossDOS SyQuest?
Fm: Mike Danner 72777,1402
To: All
Has anyone ever used CrossDOS (as included with Workbench 2.1) to format an 88 MB SyQuest cartridge so that it will be readable on a MS-DOS machine with a SyQuest drive? The Workbench 2.1 manual shows an example mountlist entry in chapter 7 of how this might be done, but it doesn't say which file to edit (devs:mountlist?) or if I need to use the HDtoolbox program or how I might go about formatting such a disk. I have tried setting up a CrossDOS partition on a SyQuest cartridge just to see if I could format it. All seemed to go well until the formatting procedure. I couldn't ever get a "NDOS" disk icon to use the Workbench Icon/Format menu selection, and when I used the CLI format command, it bombed when it tried to "initialize" the disk at the end of the format. Anyone ever do this and actually use the cartridge successfully in an MS-DOS computer?