Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!amdahl!oliveb!amiga!kodiak
From: kodiak@amiga.UUCP (Robert R. Burns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Accolades
Message-ID: <3152@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 30 Nov 88 20:47:26 GMT
References: <5710@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: kodiak@tooter.UUCP (Robert Burns)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <5710@louie.udel.EDU>
)George Neville-Neil writes about the GVP controller:
)>It is great!!!!  It even autoboots FFS.  I don't need one of those stupid
)>little 5 track partitions.  I am a very satisfied customer.
)
)It autoboots FFS???!!! They managed to squeeze their driver AND the
)FastFileSystem into the EPROMS??? I'm stunned.

Commodore has provided a *standard* for storing the FastFileSystem on the
disk itself in loadable form.  That standard is embodied in the include
files  and .  It is currently
used by the following folks that I know of...
    Great Valley Peripherals (w/ new AutoBoot roms)
    MicroBotics HardFrame
    Commodore 591 (not yet available)
    

The FFS *is* stored on the disk, so it does take space (about 30 blocks).
This allows you to upgrade the file system without rom changes.  As proof
of the standard's flexibility, I've used it to *boot* with a custom handler
off a WORM drive (connected to a HardFrame).

-- 
Bob Burns, amiga!kodiak                   _
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