On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Timothy Swenson wrote:
> I'm also starting to wonder about the Q40 manual. I formatted HD like this
>
> Partition 1 (/dev/hda1) QWA QDOS1
> Partition 2 (/dev/hda2) QWA QDOS2
> Partition 3 (/dev/hda3) SWP
> Partition 4 (/dev/hda4) LNX
>
> When the system first boots up, it has WIN_DRIVE$(1) set to 0,0,0.
> This should be the whole disk on the master on the primary bus.
> When I do a "stat win1_" it shows it as being QDOS1.
> I was worried about win1_ referring to the whole disk, so I did WIN_DRIVE 1,0,1
> (first partition on the master disk on the primary bus).
> When I do a "stat win1_" it now shows QDOS2.
>
> So, it looks like the 0 does not refer to the whole disk, but to the first
> partition,
> and the 1 refers to the second partition.
>
> Anybody else discover this?
>
> Tim Swenson
This is how I understand it:
WIN_DRIVE drive, target, partition
if you omit "partition", this means
- partition 0, if you have partitions
- whole drive, if you ain't got partitions
if you want to assign a certain partition, then you specify "partition",
partitions are numbers from 0
Claus
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