Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Hard Drive
Message-ID: <1082@electro.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 89 22:10:04 GMT
References: <89091023103918@masnet.uucp> <5982@ttidca.TTI.COM>
Reply-To: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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In article <5982@ttidca.TTI.COM> woodside@ttidcb.tti.com (George Woodside) writes:
>Drives A, a, B, and b are floppies. Functions to those drives use
>the floppy disk I/O vectors. Drive c is the cartridge port. Drives
>C-P and d-p are all vectored through another set of vectors, referred
>to as the hard disk vectors. In reality, they can be any type of
>storage media. It need only add itself to the vector, and support the
>proper functions.
>
>Note that support of 'A', 'a', 'B', and 'b' do not constitute four drives,
>only two. Drive 'C' is the only one with a case differentation. This
>differentation is really only effective on the desktop. Most shells




actually, only the desktop supports drive 'c'. and even that is not a true
drive since the way information is stored on a cartridge is **totally** 
different than standard GEMDOS format. in fact, if you try to open a 
file, using a gemdos command such as FOPEN, using drive 'c', gemdos
will automatically convert it for you to uppercase. gemdos
probably doesn't care about the case anyways.

thus, only the desktop can understand the pseudo drive 'c'.




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