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Skipper Smith

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Jan 24, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/24/97
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I read the docs for ShapeShifter, but I can't find what I need (oh, and
you want me to find my original Amiga OS docs? Ha, ha, ha, ha... I
haven't seen them for about the last 3 moves I have done, though I have
on occasion tried to look for them!).

I need to know how to dismount a CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS.

When I boot up my Amiga (as rarely as possible), I don't mount my CD-ROM
drive. Instead, I leave it unmounted so that I can run ShapeShifter and
access the CD-ROM drive under the MacOS. Sometimes I need to run the
CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS, so I quit ShapeShifter and I mount the
drive under AmigaDOS. I can't figure out how to unmount it so I can use
the drive under MacOS, however, other than rebooting my Amiga (something
I am loathe to do).

All of this will be alleviated when I install the new CD-ROM drive that
I bought and I can use one with each, but I am really curious as to how
to do this and nothing that I have tried (thinking that reasonably
obvious things like >unmount CD0: or >dismount CD0: should do it) have
been successful.

Thanks in advance.


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Yilbber VArgas

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Jan 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/25/97
to Skipper Smith

UM IT"S REAL SIMPLE
ASSIGN CD0: DISMOUNT
THIS WORKS WITH ALL MOUNTED DEVICES>
ASSIGN T: REMOVE
THIS WORKS with ALL ASSIGNED DIRECTORIES
REAL SIMPLE
Simpleton

On Fri, 24 Jan 1997, Skipper Smith wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Jan 1997 19:37:22 -0500
> From: Skipper Smith <ski...@ibmoto.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
> Subject: unmounting Amiga drive

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Tristan Young

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Jan 25, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/25/97
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Skipper Smith (ski...@ibmoto.com) writes:
> I read the docs for ShapeShifter, but I can't find what I need (oh, and
> you want me to find my original Amiga OS docs? Ha, ha, ha, ha... I
> haven't seen them for about the last 3 moves I have done, though I have
> on occasion tried to look for them!).
>
> I need to know how to dismount a CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS.
>
> When I boot up my Amiga (as rarely as possible), I don't mount my CD-ROM
> drive. Instead, I leave it unmounted so that I can run ShapeShifter and
> access the CD-ROM drive under the MacOS. Sometimes I need to run the
> CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS, so I quit ShapeShifter and I mount the
> drive under AmigaDOS. I can't figure out how to unmount it so I can use
> the drive under MacOS, however, other than rebooting my Amiga (something
> I am loathe to do).

If you find out, tell me, as I'd like to be able to unmount my CD-ROM
on occasion too, as well as my PC0:.
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Jurjen Oskam

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Jan 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/26/97
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In a message of 24 Jan 97 (19:37:22) Skipper Smith wrote to All: (about
"unmounting Amiga drive")

Hi Skipper!

SS> I need to know how to dismount a CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS.

assign <devicename> DISMOUNT

(e.g. assign CD0: DISMOUNT)

Simple, really. :-)

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Markus Ruetter

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Jan 27, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/27/97
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Skipper Smith wrote:

[del, del, del...]

>I need to know how to dismount a CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS.

Aha.

>When I boot up my Amiga (as rarely as possible), I don't mount my CD-ROM

^
?

>drive. Instead, I leave it unmounted so that I can run ShapeShifter and
>access the CD-ROM drive under the MacOS. Sometimes I need to run the
>CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS, so I quit ShapeShifter and I mount the
>drive under AmigaDOS. I can't figure out how to unmount it so I can use
>the drive under MacOS, however, other than rebooting my Amiga (something
>I am loathe to do).

And why is it necessary to unmount the CD-ROM on the Amiga side to use it
from within ShapeShifter? I've never done that, nor did I feel the need to
do so...

>All of this will be alleviated when I install the new CD-ROM drive that
>I bought and I can use one with each, but I am really curious as to how
>to do this and nothing that I have tried (thinking that reasonably
>obvious things like >unmount CD0: or >dismount CD0: should do it) have
>been successful.

If you insist on it: "Assign CD0: DISMOUNT" will do that.

BTW: Couldn't you guess that from an "Assign ?" command? ;)

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Martin Blom

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Jan 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/28/97
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"Olaf Barthel" <ol...@sourcery.han.de> writes:

>In Article <32E955...@ibmoto.com>, Skipper Smith <ski...@ibmoto.com> wrote:
>> I read the docs for ShapeShifter, but I can't find what I need (oh, and
>> you want me to find my original Amiga OS docs? Ha, ha, ha, ha... I
>> haven't seen them for about the last 3 moves I have done, though I have
>> on occasion tried to look for them!).
>>
>> I need to know how to dismount a CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS.

> If "assign dismount cd0:" or something is what's on your mind: take
>care as it does not really tell the driver to shut down and get out of
>the way. That assign command just hides the interface through which
>Workbench and other applications talk to the driver (or more accurately,
>to the filing system). Some filing systems can be shut down, taking their
>hands off the scsi device driver. They will do this when they receive an
>ACTION_DIE packet and there are no further file handles or file locks
>allocated. AmiCDROM is such a filing system. But you need a special tool to
>send the filing system the shutdown packet. I am at loss to recommend
>one as I do not know if there is one on Aminet or in the Fred Fish
>collection.

ObjArc14usr.lha util/arc 50K+Access archives (lha, tar...) like disks

on Aminet includes an "Unmount" CLI command.

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Olaf Barthel

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Jan 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/28/97
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In Article <32E955...@ibmoto.com>, Skipper Smith <ski...@ibmoto.com> wrote:
> I read the docs for ShapeShifter, but I can't find what I need (oh, and
> you want me to find my original Amiga OS docs? Ha, ha, ha, ha... I
> haven't seen them for about the last 3 moves I have done, though I have
> on occasion tried to look for them!).
>
> I need to know how to dismount a CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS.

If "assign dismount cd0:" or something is what's on your mind: take
care as it does not really tell the driver to shut down and get out of
the way. That assign command just hides the interface through which
Workbench and other applications talk to the driver (or more accurately,
to the filing system). Some filing systems can be shut down, taking their
hands off the scsi device driver. They will do this when they receive an
ACTION_DIE packet and there are no further file handles or file locks
allocated. AmiCDROM is such a filing system. But you need a special tool to
send the filing system the shutdown packet. I am at loss to recommend
one as I do not know if there is one on Aminet or in the Fred Fish
collection.

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Skipper Smith

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Jan 28, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/28/97
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Markus Ruetter wrote:
>
> And why is it necessary to unmount the CD-ROM on the Amiga side to use it
> from within ShapeShifter? I've never done that, nor did I feel the need to
> do so...

Then I must be doing something wrong. If the CD-ROM is mounted on the
Amiga side before I run SS, then the MacOS doesn't see the CD-ROM. If I
run SS without the drive mounted, then MacOS sees the drive just fine,
but I can't access it from the Amiga side (I don't remember the message,
but it was something about CD0: not being available when I try to mount
it- it has been a while since I have tried this as I haven't been able
to touch my Amiga for the last two months due to a job relocation).

Perhaps I have configured something incorrectly along the way?
Hopefully by this weekend I will have emptied enough boxes that I can
finally set up the A2000.

> If you insist on it: "Assign CD0: DISMOUNT" will do that.
>
> BTW: Couldn't you guess that from an "Assign ?" command? ;)

I could have, if I had thought that assign would do the job.

Ian Gledhill

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Jan 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/29/97
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Skipper Smith wrote:
>
> All of this will be alleviated when I install the new CD-ROM drive that
> I bought and I can use one with each, but I am really curious as to how
> to do this and nothing that I have tried (thinking that reasonably
> obvious things like >unmount CD0: or >dismount CD0: should do it) have
> been successful.
>

Have you tried "Assign cd0: dismount" ?

I think that's the syntax...

Cya,

Ian Gledhill

im...@aber.ac.uk

Yilbber VArgas

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Jan 29, 1997, 3:00:00 AM1/29/97
to Martin Blom

The Dist. version of cacheCDFS includes a killcd command.
I also thnk YAPCD also does too.
On 28 Jan 1997,
Martin Blom wrote:

> Date: 28 Jan 1997 22:13:48 GMT
> From: Martin Blom <l...@lysator.liu.se>
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
> Subject: Re: unmounting Amiga drive

> ObjArc14usr.lha util/arc 50K+Access archives (lha, tar...) like disks
>
> on Aminet includes an "Unmount" CLI command.
>
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> | Linkoping Institute of Technology - Sweden | Amiga 4000/040
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>
>

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dominique dutoit

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Feb 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM2/4/97
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>
>
> I read the docs for ShapeShifter, but I can't find what I need (oh, and
> you want me to find my original Amiga OS docs? Ha, ha, ha, ha... I
> haven't seen them for about the last 3 moves I have done, though I have
> on occasion tried to look for them!).
>
> I need to know how to dismount a CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS.
>

> When I boot up my Amiga (as rarely as possible), I don't mount my CD-ROM

> drive. Instead, I leave it unmounted so that I can run ShapeShifter and
> access the CD-ROM drive under the MacOS. Sometimes I need to run the
> CD-ROM drive under AmigaDOS, so I quit ShapeShifter and I mount the
> drive under AmigaDOS. I can't figure out how to unmount it so I can use
> the drive under MacOS, however, other than rebooting my Amiga (something
> I am loathe to do).
>

> All of this will be alleviated when I install the new CD-ROM drive that
> I bought and I can use one with each, but I am really curious as to how
> to do this and nothing that I have tried (thinking that reasonably
> obvious things like >unmount CD0: or >dismount CD0: should do it) have
> been successful.
>

> Thanks in advance.


>
>
> --
> Skipper Smith
> Somerset Design Center
> All opinions are my own and not those of my employer

> .

1>assign cd0: dismount

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