Giovanni dos Reis Nunes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How I can read, using a PC, one Harddisk formated in a
> MSX with IDE interface? I receibe a old Conner 20Mb HD
> but I can't read it in DOS or Linux. All Linux and DOS
> FDISK utilities shows a "20Mb FAT <32M" partition but
> in DOS I always receive the 'Sector not found' error
> message. I'm thinking that this HD isn't a formated
> partition... Or I'll format this drive. :)
20 Mb.....yep, that IS old.... ;-(
AFAIK, this is a software issue, having to do with with the exakt
formats used when initialising/partioning the HDD's.
Not being able to recognise a HDD partition's contents on an other
system, means to me, that either of both used an incompatible format.
And when I say you could call that format used by PC's the standard,
that would mean the format used by MSX harddisk-interfaces (goes for
SCSI as well) was incompatible. Damn !%$(@ fools, why create any
other format, than the one used on PC HDD's?
The way to go here would be to make the partitions using that
PC-compatible format, for instance by partitioning the HDD on a PC,
and then using a MSX HDD-interface that recognises/can use that
format (what interfaces would that be?), or, if necessary, modifying
the software in those MSX HDD interfaces so, that they do. Only
limitations you have to watch here, are that MSX only supports up to
64K sectors per partition (thus max. 32 MB. per partition with 512
byte sectors), and FAT12 system (I think MS-DOS FDISK makes FAT16
partitions above some 15 MB.)
More info, please!
Alwin Henseler ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
http://huizen.dds.nl/~alwinh/msx (MSX Tech Doc page)
http://www.twente.nl/~cce/index.htm (Computerclub Enschede)
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