Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!YALE.ARPA!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@YALE.ARPA (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Hard disk info Message-ID: <8706221411.AA03905@yale-eli.arpa> Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 10:11:15 EDT Article-I.D.: yale-eli.8706221411.AA03905 Posted: Mon Jun 22 10:11:15 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Jun-87 04:24:42 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 29 Landon Dyer says: > Slight nitpick: Those aren't "don't care" bits --- they are > reserved and should be zero. These bits are documented in the ST > BIOS Reference Manual.... Maybe in your version, but not in the one I paid $300 for with my Developer's Kit. In fact, I've never seen the "ST BIOS Reference Manual"; the documentation I have on the BIOS comes from "The Hitchhiker's Guide". How can I get reference manual or an updated "Hitchhiker's Guide"? *** FLAME ON *** Why does Atari seem to work against its developers? I called Atari almost a year ago trying to find out how to read the partition sector on the hard disk and was told that that information was not public and that they would not tell me. Now I know the answer because of the kindness of Schoepf, but no thanks to Atari. Similarly, people at Atari have been booting from their hard disks for months but they wouldn't let anyone else in on the act. I now am also booting from my hard disk, but courtesy of Konrad Hahn, not Atari. Come on, guys. Why do you want your developers wasting their time reconstructing information and recreating programs that you already have in-house? Wouldn't you rather that they be spending their time on nifty new software that will sell more machines? *** FLAME OFF *** --Mike Fischer -------