#BB/vhd
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Just picked up a hard drive for my 2000 and have a question about using a
partition through bridgeboard as a virtual drive. I thought I remembered
seeing some messages that recommended completely filling the pc partition then
removing the files before using in order to avoid losing data, and that there
is a program in one of the DL's that would automate this process. Does anyone
know of such a program? Also, if you are unable to unlink the virtual drive,
as in the case of crash or hangup, what effect would this have n the files in
the virtual drive?
By the way, saw an add for a bridgeboard in J&R Music World in Manhattan, for $
479. Sounds like a good price so I thought I'd pass it on. Thanks.
Dennis,
Yes, in order to avoid some problems, you need to completely fill up
the virtual drive. It's quite simple, first you use the ALINK command to
create the drive. Once it's created, you simply make a bunch of directories on
it and then copy your A: drive disk into these directories one at a time until
you run out of space. Make sure you add little files towards the end so that
you completely fill out the drive.
Now. Unlink the virtual drive. Re-link it via ALINK and then delete
all those files and temporary directories.
Now you can safely start to add the files you really want to the
virtual drive.
Once you've done this, you will NOT lose any data if you have to reset
the machine before you have had the opportunity to unlink the virtual drive.
The explanation for all this is printed in 'Transactor for the Amiga' Issue #1
v1 in an article I did. It's long and complicated…but it does work.
Don
To make the process faster, copy the A: drive to the Jlinked drive to a single
destination file. Then duplicate it. It's so much faster than the floppy. i.e.:
copy a:*.* J:fill This creates a 360K file on J:
copy J:fill J:fill1 This creates a second 360K file
copy J:fill*.* J:fillbig This creates a 720K file on J:
Repeat using fillbig until the partition is full, then try fill. Then do
another copy A:*.* j: . Do a 'dir' and see how much is left. Find a File on A:
just the same size (rounded up to the nearest .5K) and copy it. Another 'dir'
should show 0 bytes left. This only takes a few minutes and minimizes the
amount of 5.25" floppy use. Of course, unlink & relink next.
-Greg
Greg,
yup…that'd work. I'll remember it for the future. Thanks!
Don