Per wrote: >Finally got the CF reader working on the Q60 (yo-hoo! Pheobus)
Congratulations! I've also received them, but no time to try yet. Before that, one kind of adaptors worked (expensive metal cased), and one kind did not (cheaper, very small and without slot, meant for internal use). >My CF card is 32Mb. (Seems mkpart expects the drive to be partitioned to be >mounted at win1_) What do you mean with "mounted at win1_"? For MKPART, no WIN_DRIVE should be necessary. Or do you just mean that MKPART expects the drive hardware as primary IDE master? >I could not get Smsq60 to see any extended partitions although, as RZ has >demonstrated to me, there appears to be some XGM parsing code in Smsq60. I also remember to have tried it in the early days, and it didn't work for me neither. Was a large "real" harddisk, so unlike your CF, there was a size issue as well. I'm almost sure TT had no time to implement XGM parsing just for the Q40. There could be rests from the Atari-SMS implementations, though. It might be interesting to ask a Atari-SMS user. >Unless anyone else has had better success, it appears that we are limited to >4 QWA partitions per drive with the present state of the software. Exactly. And with Linux, limited to 3 QWA partitions per drive. >3) Finally, I created 3 QWA partitions of 10431 sectors each, booted Linux >and created 3 LNX partitions with fdisk. Tried them out in Linux - all ok. >Booted Smsq60 and see the 3 QWA partitions, as expected. However, there is >no error trapping if I map the 4th partition (which is, as above, labled as >XGM) and so could potentially wipe out any Linux partitions by mistake. >Beware! On the other hand, one should never wipe *any* partitions by mistake, so... :-) >On another tack: Neither WIN_WP nor WIN_REMV appear to work in Smsq60. IIRC they are QPC specific. Bye, Peter
