zip drive auto mount

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Hello,

I have some problem with ZIP drive:

Problem description:

I use QNX 4.24D with ZIP drive, in sysinit I started Fatfsys &, because I
use DOS floppy (it is mounted to /dos/a). It automaticaly mount DOS floppy
without problems when I insert media.

But problem is with ZIP drive. When I want to use ZIP I have to:

  • slay Fatfsys,
  • mount -p /dev/fd0 → it create /dev/fd0t6
  • Fatfsys &
    not only insert media, because Fatfsys needs /dev/fd0t6 and this device is
    availalbe after mount -p :wink:

manualy it works, but I need do it automaticaly like DOS floppy (only insert
media and work)

Have you any ideas?

Thanks

Lubo Drobny
MicroStep-MIS
lubod@microstep-mis.sk

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Lubo Drobny <lubod@microstep-mis.sk> wrote:
: I use QNX 4.24D with ZIP drive, in sysinit I started Fatfsys &, because I
: use DOS floppy (it is mounted to /dos/a). It automaticaly mount DOS floppy
: without problems when I insert media.
: But problem is with ZIP drive. When I want to use ZIP I have to:
: - slay Fatfsys,
: - mount -p /dev/fd0 → it create /dev/fd0t6
: - Fatfsys &
: not only insert media, because Fatfsys needs /dev/fd0t6 and this device is
: availalbe after mount -p :wink:
: manualy it works, but I need do it automaticaly like DOS floppy (only insert
: media and work)

Partitioned removable media are decidedly non-trivial. You will need to
do the “mount -p /dev/fd0” and “umount /dev/fd0” around the insertion of
such media in QNX4. But note that you do not have to slay/restart
Fatfsys, it handles “mount -tdos /dev/fd0t6 /dos/b” and “umount /dos/b”
requests. Or format the entire ZIP as a DOS volume without a partition,
in which case it will behave as your /dos/a floppy does.

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Previously, John Garvey wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:

Or format the entire ZIP as a DOS volume without a partition,
in which case it will behave as your /dos/a floppy does.

In which case you probably won’t be able to read it under
DOS, the usual reason for doing this.

\

Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com

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Or format the entire ZIP as a DOS volume without a partition,
in which case it will behave as your /dos/a floppy does.

Do you know any tool under QNX/Windows to make this format style?

Thanks

Lubo Drobny
MicroStep-MIS
lubod@microstep-mis.sk