AMAX Volumes
Mike and/or Chris:
I'd like to add another twist to the AMAX partition problem. I have a
2000 w/GVP combo card and its' corresponding gvpscsi.amhd amax driver. On
my Amiga side hard drive I have a 20 Meg partition called AMAX1 (that
always shows up as AMAX1:LK' or some such nonsense on my workbench. I
also have a 46 Meg removable Ricoh (remember them?) drive sitting out on
the SCSI chain. That had always been labeled as DR0: and formatted with
amigaDOS stuff. THe problem I was having was not being able to switch the
removable cartridges when I started AMAX. (BTW the AMAX side removable
cartridge had been formatted completely from AMAX) THere were 2 problems.
First of all, the cartridge wouldn't mount at MAC startup time. I was
eventually able to use a program called SCSIProbe to get the cartridge
mounted and appearing on the desktop–but I was never able to consistently
run programs from that cartridge.
What I did to solve the problem was to use GVP's FaastPrep to rewrite the
diskblocks on *both* disks and called them *both* AMAX2 . Then all I had
to do was to go back into my user-startup sequence and change any
references to the old DR0: to AMAX2: Now it seems to work ok. I suspect
that when AMAX starts up it remembers more than the device name, but
that's only a guess. Hope it's helpful to you.
Tim