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From: hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Drive
Summary: its easy, if you have sources for the hard disk driver
Message-ID: <776@lzaz.ATT.COM>
Date: 11 Sep 89 16:10:37 GMT
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In article <89091023103918@masnet.uucp>, calvin.bruner@canremote.uucp (CALVIN BRUNER) writes:
> I have a peculiar question....does anyone know if you can label a hard
> drive segment as Drive "B", or is that reserved for floppys?  I have a
> cartridge which only wants to access drives A or B,

The scheme use for all io is to vector thru hdv_rw, which get you to the disk
driver.  If it wanted to think of B as hard disk it could.  But all the
ones out there assume a and b are floppies, and start their tables at c:

I reverse engineered the BMS driver to add features I needed.  One allow
me to MOUNT and drive partition on any drive letter.  (why? try to move
word perfect from F to D without reentering all the absolute paths it uses).
Anyway, this would just as happily mount f: as b: .

Bottom line.  Yes you can have hard disk as b:, but you have to work at it.


Howard C. Johnson
ATT Bell Labs
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