Re: Amiga RDB

"Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish-CFLBMwTPW48UNGrzBIF7/[email protected]> wrote:
> "Axel Dörfler" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I still have a working Amiga here, and MorphOS, which come with the 
> > Pegasos, is AmigaOS compatible.
> > I even still develop an application for it which should be finished 
> > soon! :-)
> That's a bit scary, I have to admit. ;-)

Yeah, I know :-) But I started that application 7 years ago, and I just 
want it to be completed, I don't like leaving unfinished stuff behind 
(as I have to do so often) :-)

> > I.e. you could have an Intel style partitioning block at the 
> > beginning, 
> > and the Amiga RDB on the same disk, describing the same layout. At 
> > least, I am pretty sure that no one used it that way yet, it would 
> > easily be possible to be able to switch your hard drives from one 
> > system to the other while still being able to access (nearly) all 
> > partitions. So we might just ignore it :-)
> Sorry, I didn't get that. You mean, for disks with Amiga RDB, the 
> user 
> could additionally describe the partition layout using the Intel 
> scheme 
> and hence we can ignore the RDB? Mmh, while I'm usually a big fan of 
> ignoring problems, I'd find this approach a bit... err... you know 
> what 
> I mean. :-)

What I meant was: it would be possible to do so, in theory, but I don't 
see an urgent reason to support that behaviour :-)
We should give Amiga RDB the higher priority, because it's superior to 
the Intel partitioning scheme - but OTOH almost no one uses it, and it 
would slow down booting, so I wouldn't even consider doing that :-)
So how does your ignoring side feel about this? :)

Adios...
   Axel.