#Floppy partition on HD
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I downloaded a file called FMSDIS.LZH. It's supposed to emulate a floppy
drive on the harddrive. I followed the instructions but am having trouble
getting this to work. It says to assign FMS: to an empty directory. What's
the point of this. Nothing ever gets written to this directory. After I
give the format command everything seems to proceed properly and I'm given
an onscreen message that the drive is being initialized but then when I try
to read this drive I get an error saying that this is not a DOS disk. There
seem to be a number of files in the archive for which no instructions are
given. These include Makefile; DMakefile; DMakefile.lat, fms.c, and tag.a.
What are these for and are they necessary for this to work? Thanks
-JOHN K. – via Whap!
John,
I can't answer you specific questions about the program, but as to
the extra files DMakefile, DMakefile.lat, fms.c and tag.a. Those are the
source code to the program. There're there so that folks that can
understand it can see how it's done.
Don
I think you have to Format it before you can use it.
-GG
I did format it and everything seems to go fine. No error messages during
the format process. Yet when I try to access the partition I get the
message "Not a DOS disk in drive 5". Who would be the best person to ask
about this problem? Is there anyone out there who has gotten this to work?
-JOHN K. – via Whap!
You must do the FMS: assign since that's where FMS store's its "Unit0",
"Unit1", etc. floppy files. These files hold the actual "floppy" data that
is accessed by the device driver. The "Unit" files are created once you
mount the device and FORMAT it. My FMS: directory looks like this:
Unit0 901120 —arwe- 10-Jun-90 08:43:22
Unit1 901120 —arwe- 10-Jun-90 08:40:31
Unit2 901120 —-rwed Yesterday 23:49:35
I have three FMS "floppies" on my system. Once you get the thing working
properly, you'll love it. Comes in quite handy for putting together disks
for clubs or friends.
I'm still not totally clear on the process. At what point do these files
(Unit0, Unit1, etc) get written. Is there a command I need to run? I've
done the assign command but I think there must be something I'm missing
along the way. Could you please step me through the exact process start to
finish? Thanks. -JOHN K. – via Whap!