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From: gert@nikhefh.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Saving the desktop
Message-ID: <251@nikhefh.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Feb-87 03:13:26 EST
Article-I.D.: nikhefh.251
Posted: Fri Feb 20 03:13:26 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Feb-87 01:45:33 EST
References: <8702131809.AA09685@inria.inria.fr> <534@viper.UUCP> <432@maccs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gert@nikhefh.UUCP (Gert Poletiek)
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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Keywords: don't use C for your RAM disk

In article <432@maccs.UUCP> gordan@maccs.UUCP (Gordan Palameta) writes:
>I believe part of the original problem might be due to using C as the
>RAM disk identifier.  I have heard on good authority that C is reserved
>(to the cartridge port?), and that therefore you should never use C (or
>A or B, obviously) for a RAM disk...
>
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>                    Gordan Palameta

I don't know what started this discussion, but the  remarks  here
on  the  assignment  of  drive  identifiers  to logical drives is
WRONG.

The  GemDos  file  system  can  have  16  logical  devices  onine
simultaneously.  These are called "A" trough "P"  (Capitals). The
cartridge support is something different  altogether. Its  merely
a  hack  in  the  Gem  Desktop and the bios, but (as far as I can
tell) has nothing to do with GemDos.  This can be   seen from the
fact  that  a  Fsfirst/Fsnext search in drive id 'c' (small) will
find the files on the harddisk or ramdisk assigned to  drive  'C'
(capital)

The desktop's presentation of the cartridge window just like  the
normal disk and directory windows is an illusion.


Gert Poletiek
Dutch National Institute for High Energy Physics