On Thu, 2006-10-05 at 03:02 -0700, jdow wrote: > As a side note the partition tables the Amiga had actually could > support descriptions for nested data partitions quite safely. There > were "reserved" blocks at the head of a partition and similar reserved > blocks at the end of a partition space. I explored these possibilities > as I wrote the partitioning software supplied by a major Amiga hard > disk controller manufacturer. And there wasn't any of this primary / extended / logical partitions inside extended partitions, gobbledygook, either. It was just partitions inside the drive. Speaking of Amigas, have you got Fedora to read any Amiga FFS hard drives, or even Zip discs? I've got a hankering to transfer some old data onto Fedora, and I'd rather not have to try getting Samba working with Miami over a serial port link. Ugh, torture! -- (Currently running FC4, but testing FC5, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
