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From: erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Questions about 1.3 to developer types
Message-ID: <8973@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 88 19:46:56 GMT
Organization: Ohio State Computer & Info Science
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Keywords: 1.3 RAM device and reboot


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I just saw a review of KS/WB 1.3 in some magazine (not AC or AmigaWORLD), and
I had a few questions.  The magazine had a picture of an open workbench window
and a new preferences screen, and reviewed KS/WB 1.3, gamma _4_.  The
article claimed that you could _reboot_ the recoverable ram disk; I had a
sick idea.  I know that you can't mount the boot device under the FFS, since
you need to read the file-system handler from the L: directory during a MOUNT
command, and that if you boot from DF0:, the system automagically mounts all
3.5" disks for you (under SFS).  If you boot from RAM: (called CARD: under 
gamma 4), or from DH0:, do the 3.5" floppies automatically mount?  Can you
mount the 3.5" floppies under FFS?  I want to use _real_ 512 byte blocks for
archive floppies, not 512 byte blocks with label space in each block.  I
realize that the extra space is >5%, but free space is free space.

Thanks,
-ethan
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