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From: Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
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Subject: Re: Weird TT hard disk thingy
Message-ID: <1991May10.025443.15780@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 10 May 91 02:54:43 GMT
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In article <1991May9.154337.17580@cs.yale.edu> fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu (Michael Fischer) writes:
> In article <2930@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
> >Supra's driver will find ACSI units which are not connected in consecutive
> >order starting with zero, and Atari's driver won't.
> > ...
> >There is another problem which has been called to my attention, and which
> >is covered by the same "Atari drivers" caveat: Supra uses one trick to get
> >more than four partitions per drive, and Atari uses another. If you have a
> >drive partitioned with Supra's trick, and you connected it to a TT (or any
> >machine running an Atari driver) the partitions after the fourth one will
> >not be accessible.  Again, it's a question of using non-Atari drivers.
> >
> >============================================
> >Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
> >reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt
> 
> I would think it would be in Atari's best interests to provide an
> upgrade path for present ST users of Supra's drives.  It shouldn't
> be too hard to extend AHDI so that:
> 
> 1.  The driver will work like Supra's driver and find ACSI units
> which are not connected in consecutive order.
> 
> 2.  The driver will recognize Supra's extended partitions as well as
> Atari's.  HDX doesn't have to create them, but it would sure be nice
> if AHDI and HDX understood them.
> 
> -- 
> ==================================================
> | Michael Fischer <fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu>  |
> ==================================================

Why don't we have a propper standard, one of the problems is that
  Ataries HDX standard came out far to late.
So why don't all the other Atari developers come up with one
common standard.
  Is it not posible to follow the MS-DOS standard, as our disks are
based on that standard..
It would only take a small patch program to fixup the none standard
disk partitions, and for the other developers to fixup there Booters,
or is this to simple a task.

Also are BIG partition standard ?.
-- 
Roger W. Sheppard   85 Donovan Rd, Kapiti New Zealand...