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- From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: 1.2, 1.3, 2.04, and FastFileSystem
- Message-ID: <paulk.19zy@terapin.com>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 20:37:32 GMT
- References: <1992Aug25.010049.58378@cc.usu.edu>
- Organization: BBS
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- > BUT, when I load Kickstart 1.3 off the Super Kickstart Disk (I have
- > 2.0 ROMs) and boot with my Mavis Beacon disk (which is OS version
- > 1.2) I still have access to both Hard Drive partitions. What
- > gives? It appears to me that 1.2 is reading the FastFileSystem
- > (confirmed with HDToolBox).
-
- 1.3 knows how to read a filesystem from the rigid disk blocks, I
- believe, and the 2.x FFS is able to run under 1.3 ... you can even
- use file links under 1.3 with that filesystem, eh. If you had 1.2
- kickstart in there it wouldn't work, I bet.
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