-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tim wrote: > 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. I miss the Amiga! So many things done smartly! real fast screen refreshes, icons that don't "play dead for minutes at a time, etc. etc. > > 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! > You'll need to rebuild the kernel to add in support for FFS, after that no problems, (you still can't read floppies though) Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFJTdZ5mBKdb7VQEcRAlwsAJ9NklztUXkjPwKiNbQ1D5eqa/W3lgCfdWiP 4deLdusyxPwBH6US9bO7bRQ= =qouY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
