Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: "Device" vs. "Handler"?? Message-ID: <6436@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 24 Aug 90 12:24:28 GMT References: <082090.120745@ckctpa.UUCP> <25339.26d3ba57@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 14 In article <25339.26d3ba57@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> markv@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes: > Finally the example of MSH: is BOTH a device and a handler. The MSH: > part is a handler that provides a AmigaDOS interface to a MS-DOS file > system. In practice this would be all that is needed. MSH also > provides a device driver to access the floppy hardware because of bugs > in trackdisk.device, so messydisk.device is a device. Well, if you call "using a proprietary low-level format to pack 880K instead of 720K on a disk" a "bug", yes. I don't know about MSH:, but CrossDOS has an mfm.device for the same reason... but you can put an AmigaDOS filesystem on an mfm.device disk, or an MS-DOS file system on a trackdisk.device disk. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .