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From: higgin@cbmvax.UUCP (Paul Higginbottom SALES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000 discoveries
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Date: Wed, 14-Oct-87 14:34:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 14 14:34:11 1987
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in <3149@uwmcsd1.UUCP>, dave@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (David A Rasmussen) says:
> Finally, I'm interested in hearing more about sharing resources
> between the bridge card/pc side and the amiga side. For instance,
> if I only want to use the pc stuff moderately, can I access an
> amiga-side disk from the bridgecard, or am I better off with an
> amiga partition on a pc disk?

This is explained in the Bridgeboard manual.  MS-DOS 3.2 and beyond
(we supply 3.3 I think) have the "virtual device" capability which
allows it to access devices not physically connected to itself (the
PC, or Bridgeboard in this case), and was created primarily for
transparent networking.  This feature is used with the JLINK
command to establish a virtual device on an AMIGA DEVICE (3.5" floppy
or hard drive).  The device does NOT act like a normal device though,
and cannot be booted off of because the link is established AFTER
booting (i.e., it is not part of the ROM BIOS).  The device just
uses "space" on the virtual device for files and directories, and
on the Amiga side, the PC virtual device will appear as one file.

> Dave Rasmussen c/o Computing Services Division @ U of WI - Milwaukee

	Paul Higginbottom.