Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!wucs1!warren From: warren@wucs1.wustl.edu (Warren Burnett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Hard Drive Accolades Summary: A question Message-ID: <600@wucs1.wustl.edu> Date: 5 Dec 88 22:10:13 GMT References: <5710@louie.udel.EDU> <3152@amiga.UUCP> <271@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> <5425@cbmvax.UUCP> Reply-To: warren@wucs1.wustl.edu (Warren Burnett) Organization: Washington University, St. Louis, MO Lines: 16 In article <5425@cbmvax.UUCP> jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup) writes: >In article <271@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> paquette@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Trevor Paquette) writes: >>>> stuff asking about the Hardframe and GVP controllers deleted.... > > Yes - the rigid disk block stuff has nothing to do with 1.3 KS. >THe ONLY new thing in 1.3 KS is that autoboot works. So, you can have >FFS only with 1.2 roms, or autoboot into FFS with 1.3 roms. > One question: If you cannot autoboot from the GVP controller without having the 1.3 roms installed in your machine, why is it that much better than any other hard disk controller? Is it because you don't need to have one of those small, slow-filesystem partitions just to boot off of? Warren Burnett warren@wucs1.wustl.edu