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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
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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