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From: halderen@fwi.uva.nl (Berry A.W. van Halderen (I88))
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga & Atari minix 1.5 questions
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.131959.12938@fwi.uva.nl>
Date: 25 Jan 91 13:19:59 GMT
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Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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mboen@peun33.sni.de (Martin Boening) writes:
>>	Can the Amiga minix read Atari minix disks?
>That I don't know. The Atari MINIX file systems reside on standard format 
>disks, so far as sectoring etc. is concerned. The fs code is supposed to be
>identical between MINIX PC and ST, so why not AMIGAMINIX as well. Therefore
>I'd think if you AMiga can read disks formatted by TOS (i.e. read the 
>physical sectors from the tracks) there should be no problems. But I haven't
>tried it, so don't bet on it.
>>	Dave.
>So long. Maybe some minix guru can verify/contradict what I've said?

AmigaMinix does use the same kind of diskformat as STminix, so you can
read, write, and execute (!? I though so) ST disks.
This is why AmigaMinix is kinda slow when accessing disks (the amiga
diskdrive doesn't like to read and write IBM-formatted disks).

					Cu, Berry
					Email: halderen@fwi.uva.nl

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