Hi! On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:24:09PM +0200, Martin-Eric Racine wrote: > The only thing we clarified there is that even MiNT wasn't able > to access the resulting partition, which you refused to beleive. Well, as you haven't then the list about this (as it would be a bug, if Big-DOS accepts the partition, but MiNT with a correct NEWFATFS line(!) doesn't), I simply assumed you managed to get it to work, then. Remember, it's not of any help if you keep telling "MiNT still needs Big-DOS" (especially in public forums) just because for some reasons it doesn't work for you. It works for quite a lot people, so I'd rather suggest to track down what's going wrong for you. But it's simply not true that Big-DOS is still necessary; if it is for your setup, then something's wrong with either your setup or MiNT itself. > Uwe Seimet confirmed that, without BigDOS, the partition (and any > partitions following it) simply won't show up in SingleTOS I won't be accessible (Getbpb() returns NULL), that's a big difference. The drive letter is of course reserved, as Big-DOS wouldn't find it, either, if it weren't. > nor will it (and the following) be found at bootup if the TOS version > doesn't support that partition size. No, they will all be found, but simply not accessible. And of course even less will following partitions disappear. And Uwe just confirmed that, so I guess you got him quite wrong. Imagine the following partition layout on a harddisk: 1. 15 megs, GEM 2. 1023 megs, BGM 3. 127 megs, BGM 4. 511 megs, BGM (All partitions have a FAT filesystem) Your Atari has TOS 1.04, i.e. the built-in GEMDOS can handle partitions up to a maximum of 256 megabytes. If HDDRIVER would behave as you said, and you'd boot into TOS, you'd only have C: 15 megs But in fact you get C: 15 megs D: not accessible (GEMDOS error -46) E: 127 megs F: not accessible (GEMDOS error -46) (Check _drvbits to see that the bits for D: and F: /are/ set) When you now boot MagiC, or install Big-DOS, you get: C: 15 megs D: 1023 megs E: 127 megs F: 511 megs See that it wouldn't make any sense if HDDRIVER wouldn't recognize the partitions, i.e. install a drive letter, even with TOS? You'd get different drives D: and F: otherwise, and that's not the case. Even more, how should Big-DOS work if HDDRIVER hadn't installed a drive letter already? It would have to re-map drive letters, which it doesn't. Ciao Thomas -- Thomas Binder (Gryf @ IRCNet) gryf@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de PGP-key available on request! binder@rbg.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de Vote against SPAM: http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/
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