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The THOR-Software Licence
This License applies to the computer programs known as "Mounter"
and "SwitchReq". The "Program", below, refers to such program.
The programs and files in this distribution are freely distributable
under the restrictions stated below, but are also Copyright (c)
Thomas Richter.
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Purpose of this program:
Sets up a task that checks periodically one device for a media change, and
starts one of several commands. The mounting itself should be done by one
program you got with your hardware or which is supplied by CBM. This is,
for example, "OktagonMount" for the ALF/Oktagon controller and "GVPScsiCtrl"
for the GVP scsi adapter.
Synopsis:
Mounter DEVICE/A,UNIT/A/N,FLAGS/N,
RELOADCMD,REMOVECMD,RETRYCMD,
MOUNTCMD,DELAY/N,PRI/N
DEVICE: name of the device to check, i.e. "oktagon.device".
UNIT: unit to check ("5" or "6" for the popular Iomega ZIP drives)
FLAGS: flags value for OpenDevice, defaults to zero.
RELOADCMD: a command used to mount a volume. This one gets executed each
time a volume is inserted in the device. Should be something
like "OktagonMount" or "GVPScsiCmp".
REMOVECMD: a command used to remove an already mounted volume. Gets
executed each time a volume is removed from the device.
Could be used to dismount the handler, i.e.
"assign ZIP: dismount" is a useful choice.
RETRYCMD: a command used to check if the hardware is ready for
operation. It gets executed if "Mounter" failed to open the
device with OpenDevice(). This command should check the
hardware or should try to load the hardware driver.
MOUNTCMD: a command used to initialize the hardware if it is ready
for operation. Gets called directly after "Mounter" was the
first time successful to open the device.
DELAY: Specifies the checking period in seconds.
PRI: Specifies the priority of the "Mounter" process. Useful
values are "0" or "-1".
The precise use of this command relies on your hardware, so I can't give a
general command line that works for all removable media. The following
layout was proven to work relyable with the "oktagon" SCSI controller with
a ZIP drive as unit 6:
Run >NIL: <NIL: Mounter >NIL: <NIL: oktagon.device 6
RELOADCMD="OktagonMount" REMOVECMD="execute S:Remove" DELAY=5 PRI=-1
where "S:Remove" is a script that looks like this:
wait 5
assign ZIP: dismount
The "Run" command is used (and should be used like this) to lauch
the "Mounter" process in background. This command line should go in your
startup sequence.
For the GVP SCSI controller, leave the "RELOADCMD" and "REMOVECMD" blank and
specify:
Run >NIL: <NIL: Mounter >NIL: <NIL: oktagon.device 6
RETRYCMD="GVPSCSICtrl" MOUNTCMD="execute S:ZipMount" DELAY=5 PRI=-1
where "S:ZipMount" is this script:
SwitchReq off
GvpSCSICtrl -r
DiskChange ZIP:
A mount entry for the ZIP should be added to DEVS:DosDrivers.
SwitchReq is another tool that comes with this archive. It disables the
failure requesters.
Thomas, May 1997
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