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MKDOSDisc on the Iyonix

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Chris Evans

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Mar 8, 2007, 9:28:12 AM3/8/07
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A 32 bit version of MkDOSDisc (part of the now open source !PCPro app) is
available at http://www.riscos-online.nl/A9support/patches/USBformat.zip

It is fine on an a9Home but unfortunatly it errors on an Iyonix with:
"Couldn't delete old partition file"

Any ideas?

n.b. Syntax: MKdosdisc MassFS::xx.$ yy -initdos
xx= name from device on iconbar
yy= size in Mb


Chris Evans

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Theo Markettos

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Mar 8, 2007, 6:03:01 PM3/8/07
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Chris Evans <ch...@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
> A 32 bit version of MkDOSDisc (part of the now open source !PCPro app) is
> available at http://www.riscos-online.nl/A9support/patches/USBformat.zip
>
> It is fine on an a9Home but unfortunatly it errors on an Iyonix with:
> "Couldn't delete old partition file"
>
> Any ideas?

Umm... how did you get MassFS on the Iyonix? Is this with a Simtec card in
a podule slot, or do you mean Castle USB? The Simtec card presents a USB
mass storage device as one big file, a bit like a PC card partition, which
MkDOSDisc writes to to format it. The Castle card presents a FileCore
device, in a similar way to an ADFS hard disc, and then DOSFS detects it.
Simtec USB v2 (on the A9) also does this, but not v1 (Unipod, podules).

Given that MkDOSDisc was written for the PC card and is used to PC
partitions being files, I'm guessing as written it'll only work on Simtec's
implementation. It wouldn't be too hard to modify to do Iyonix too, though.

Theo

Chris Evans

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Mar 12, 2007, 8:50:26 AM3/12/07
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In article <rYE*jw...@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>, Theo Markettos

<URL:mailto:theom...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Chris Evans <ch...@cjemicros.co.uk> wrote:
> > A 32 bit version of MkDOSDisc (part of the now open source !PCPro app) is
> > available at http://www.riscos-online.nl/A9support/patches/USBformat.zip
> >
> > It is fine on an a9Home but unfortunatly it errors on an Iyonix with:
> > "Couldn't delete old partition file"
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Umm... how did you get MassFS on the Iyonix?

I didn't when testing I tried replacing the MassFS::xx. with SCSI::DiscName

> Is this with a Simtec card in
> a podule slot, or do you mean Castle USB? The Simtec card presents a USB
> mass storage device as one big file, a bit like a PC card partition, which
> MkDOSDisc writes to to format it. The Castle card presents a FileCore
> device, in a similar way to an ADFS hard disc, and then DOSFS detects it.
> Simtec USB v2 (on the A9) also does this, but not v1 (Unipod, podules).
>
> Given that MkDOSDisc was written for the PC card and is used to PC
> partitions being files, I'm guessing as written it'll only work on Simtec's
> implementation. It wouldn't be too hard to modify to do Iyonix too, though.

It would be very useful if someone could do this:-)
We get quite a few support calls which this would fix!

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