RE: VFAT.XFS versus MagiC

[Petr Stehlik <stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz>]

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Sven Karlsson wrote:

> > Well, under TOS you need BigDOS. BigDOS needs XHDI, which is implemented 
> > by HuSHI, HDDRIVER and CBHD. But HDDRIVER is not enough for reading DOS 
> > partitions, you still need the BigDOS ;-)
> 
> That's right. But you don't need XHDI to access large discs the
> extended Rwabs is just fine. XHDI is however needed if you want

AFAIK (I don't have any Atari docs here in work, so I may be wrong) Rwabs 
can't read DOS sectors. You need something which work on physical layer, 
maybe DMAread (but that doesn't work with IDE, most probably).

Petr
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