Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!ukma!sean
From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: SDB and tracing through the ROMs
Keywords: SDB, BCPL, breakpoint
Message-ID: <10771@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 88 08:58:12 GMT
References: <1988Dec27.223345.29513@ziebmef.uucp> <5595@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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In article <5595@cbmvax.UUCP> steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats) writes:
|>So... suggestions?  My eventual aim is to have my format of floppy auto-
|>recognised when a floppy is stuck in the drive, which I decided was

|'fraid you have hit a pretty glaring hole in the current AmigaDOS filing
|system environment.  Right now, the filing system is mounted on a device
|and remains there for all time.  The mounted filing system decides if it
|can grok the inserted disk, if it can't, it just says "not a DOS disk" and
|gives up.  There is no facility for "passing-on" a disk to an alternate
|filing system.  Unfortunately, this is what you need.

I thought that this was exactly what FFS on floppies combined with
autodiskchange does. Have I got it wrong?

Sean
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