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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Bernoulli/GVP II question
Message-ID: <08323.AA08323@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 6 Jun 91 03:19:58 GMT
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References: <1530@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> <25211@well.sf.ca.us> <1991Jun5.190339.10057@comspec.uucp>
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In article <1991Jun5.190339.10057@comspec.uucp>,
darrell@comspec.uucp (Darrell Grainger) writes:

> Does it [GVP SCSI] treat the Bernoulli as a 20 meg floppy?

Not quite. If it did, then the driver would have to mount
the DOS device even if no cartridge (or one without an RDB)
is inserted (much like the DF[0-3], for example). Prior to
Kickstart 2.0, this wouldn't make a lot of sense for a hard
disk, since only the old filesystem is available in ROM.

> Can you power up the system with no Bernoulli and then say
> do a DIR FRED: where FRED: is a bernoulli cartridge. When
> you put the FRED: cartridge in it should then give you a
> directory of the cartridge without clicking retry (just
> like a floppy).

Yes, provided you manually create a MountList entry for this
"default" Bernoulli partition and then Mount it in the
Startup-Sequence of your boot partition.

Ralph