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RE: VFAT.XFS versus MagiC



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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