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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
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Subject: Re: Weird TT hard disk thingy
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Date: 10 May 91 07:53:34 GMT
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In article <1991May10.025443.15780@actrix.gen.nz> Roger.Sheppard@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
[Quotes lots of people]
>
>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...

Well, there's not point in adopting yet another standard now.  Atari has
released the details of their standard for adding partitions and for 
creating large (big GEM - BGM) partitions.  Registered developers can get
this document right now.  The new driver comes with all TTs so we might as
well use its standard.

	--Steve



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