Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!chinet!saj
From: saj@chinet.chi.il.us (Stephen Jacobs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: To seek or not to seek.
Summary: Please, somebody..tell me about partition maps
Message-ID: <7101@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 7 Dec 88 14:34:45 GMT
References: <806@yugas.UUCP> <7078@chinet.chi.il.us> <12206@cup.portal.com>
Organization: Chinet - Chicago Public Access UNIX
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In article <12206@cup.portal.com>, Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com writes:
> You can define your own extensions to the partition map and than create a
> mount/unmount utility to assign any of the 24(or 14?) available drive
> specifiers (strange things happen if you try to redirect a: or b:) to as
> many partitions as you may want.  Of course your non GEM partitions may be
> larger, I think 32K is the limit.

Sounds very attractive.  But what I know about partition maps would fit in
a gnat's ear.  I know that they live at the physical beginning of a hard 
disk and are different in different disk driver systems (I learned that when
I tried to put a hard disk bootup program intended for use with AHDI on a
disk controlled by BMS software and blew away the partition information).
Would someone who knows several partitioning schemes please tell me about
them? (I'd guess enough people would be interested to justify posting answers)