Re: TOS/MiNT/MagiC issues (was: Importance of "W"

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

>On Sun, Nov 30, 1997 at 06:36:32PM +0100, you wrote:
>> BTW, BigDOS is hopefully not needed since there's HDDRIVER 7.1.
>Don't forget that HDDRIVER 7.1 does not mean you don't need BigDOS
>anymore. It's only possible to partition media in such a way that they
>can be used without BigDOS, but you still need BigDOS if you want to use
>media which was partioned on a PC or with older versions of HDDRUTIL (and
>the partitions are > 32 megabyte).

you are right. But you may be sure I have repartitioned all my disks
immediately :-)

>Also note that media which are both TOS and DOS compatible can only have
>one partition with at most one gigabyte.

OK.. But burning BigDOS into ROM is a very bad idea...

Petr