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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A HD controller review
Message-ID: <8810271754.AA14920@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 27 Oct 88 17:54:07 GMT
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:Okay, I've seen enough people say something of this sort, and the 1.3
:Enhancer manual says something like this too, that the first partition
:on the drive must be the old filesystem.  Now, is this really true for
:all cases or is it only true for the A2090?  I have a C.LTD SCSI
:controller and hard disk on my A1000, and the FFS appears to work OK,
:even though I have only 1 partition, covering the entire disk.  Anyone
:know for sure?

	If you want to autoboot and have a controller that can autoboot,
but also want to run the FFS on your HD, then your setup must be that the
first partition on the HD is under the old file system (OFS).  The reason
is quite simple:  The FFS handler is a file and NOT in rom for 1.3 ... it is
not possible to *boot* off the FFS because it can't find the FFS handler
because nothing is mounted yet (this is the kind of problem that would make
an AI go in circles).

	This should be clear:  The first partition need not be very large.
You can make it 3 cylinders, I believe ... just enough to hold the FFS
handler and other goodies to Mount the remainder of the disk.

	
	If you do NOT want to autoboot, or can't even ... then you will be
booting off floppy and can make ALL the partitions on your HD run under FFS.
Since I can't autoboot, this is what I do.  My particular setup is an A1000,
Starboard + Stardrive, and duel HD running FFS on all 5 partitions.

						-Matt