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From: weber_w@apollo.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GEMBOOT tested on US ROM's
Message-ID: <341cab34.1f6@apollo.uucp>
Date: Mon, 6-Apr-87 11:10:00 EST
Article-I.D.: apollo.341cab34.1f6
Posted: Mon Apr  6 11:10:00 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 9-Apr-87 03:23:05 EST
References: <8704031501.AA13923@inria.inria.fr>
Reply-To: weber_w@apollo.UUCP (Walt Weber)
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Organization: Apollo Computer, Chelmsford, MA
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In <8704031501.AA13923@inria.inria.fr> poirot@inria.inria.fr writes:
>
>I'll going to reformat it next monday or tuesday. So i would like to know
>if someone has experiment GEMBOOT ? Can it be useful for me  and may i 
>include it in the future ??
>

I have tested GEMBOOT over the weekend, using two MAXTOR XT1065 drives and
a Berkeley MicroSystems BMS-100 interface board.  After formatting, the
drives yield 8 partitions of approx. 13.3Mb each.

Gemboot reported on boot that it found 112 folders total, I copied 80 folders
at a time from one partition to another and it WORKED FLAWLESSLY!

Rebooting without GEMBOOT after that caused Show Info on the partition
to trash a portion of the drive FAT, and could even be made to cause a folder
copy to "two-bomb" crash the desktop.

Rebooting with GEMBOOT back in permitted me to access all partitions, copy
folders, etc. without any hassle.

****** Proceeding beyond this point may cause damage from FLAMES **********

If there were any justice in the world Atari development would be SHOT for not
making a fix like this available MONTHS AGO (assuming they are running something
similar INTERNALLY), and Konrad Hahn would receive the proceeds from their life
insurance policies AND royalties for his efforts.  I personally intend to tangibly
express my appreciation for his efforts.

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