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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Need help on ZIP
- From: bmaple@burner.com (Bob Maple)
- Message-ID: <bmaple.hhuz@burner.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Jan 96 22:10:25 MST
- Organization: The Back Burner BBS
-
- On Thu 4-Jan-1996 12:39p, PARSLEY RASCAL wrote:
-
- PR> Can you create a Macintosh partition on an Ms-DOS Zip disk?
- PR> This is so i can use it with ShapeShifter....
-
- While I can't say "Yes!" and tell you how to do it, technically you _could_ be
- able to so long as both filesystems (Mac and MSDOS) were both aware of each
- other's partitions, in so much that they don't cross over. (IE the MSDOS side
- knows what part of the disk is 'off limits' where your Mac stuff lives and
- vice versa.)
-
- While I certainly have never tried, it seems like it would be easy to do, all
- from the Amiga side, via mountlists, and then format the PC side under the
- Amiga. (The Mac side would format under Shapeshifter but starts out as just
- any other AmigaDOS partition)
-
- Now, whether or not a REAL PC would be able to then read the PC portion, I do
- not know... you'd obviously have to do configuration on that end to let it
- know which cylinders/blocks to use.
-
- : Bob Maple : In the beginning, the Universe was created. :
- : bmaple@burner.com : This has made a lot of people very angry and :
- : http://rmii.com/~bobm : been widely regarded as a bad move. .........:
-