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From: terry@helios.ucsc.edu (Terry Ricketts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: bridgeboard
Summary: yes there is
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Date: 3 May 90 15:06:57 GMT
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In article <1990May2.192405.11329@uokmax.uucp> slfields@uokmax.uucp (Scott L Fields) writes:
>I am curious to know if the bridgeboard can boot off an amiga hard drive. does
>anyone out in netland know more about this. I don't care so much about perfor-
>mance as much as I mind buying a second hard drive for the PC side. I know I
>can mount a external drive after booting off a floppy but is there a way to
>boot it for the amiga side? Huh Huh Huh.....PLEASE?

   Yes there is a way. The new Janus allows you to create an Amigados file
which can be used by the bridgeboard as a bootable (or not bootable if you
prefer) drive. There is a program on the Janus disk called 'MakeAB' which
will format that 'file' to simulate any hard disk you can imagine. It works
very nicely. An added advantage is that it is a normal file to AmigaDos and
can be backed up, renamed, deleted, etc like any other file.
   If you have a real hard disk running with the bridgeboard you can also
partition it to have an AmigaDos partition which is accessable from the
Amiga side. It will be a bit slower in access due to having to pass the data
through the bridgeboard.

Terry