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RE: VFAT.XFS versus MagiC

To: Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>
Subject: RE: VFAT.XFS versus MagiC
From: Petr Stehlik <stehlik@cas3.zlin.vutbr.cz>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:19:22 +0100 (GMT+0100)
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On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, Julian Reschke-FJR010 wrote:

> >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).
> 
> Rwabs can read any sector. It doesn't care about the contents.

I thought Rwabs worked with logical sectors. On DOS formatted medias you 
can't fidn logical sectors, because the partition table is not 
compatible. Am I wrong with this?

Petr
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References:
- RE: VFAT.XFS versus MagiC
  - From: Julian Reschke-FJR010 <Julian_Reschke-FJR010@email.mot.com>

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