Fabrizio Diversi makes some magical things to make me read } Btw, does anyone know why i have to perform a "DEL_DEFB" command after having swapped (hot) the md , before to see the right content ?
Because there is a caching mechanism which assume that md are not removable... look for WIN_REMV in a manual to tag a partition/drive as removable. (it must be something like that, but it might be unimplemented ?) } I tried to use mtools package (from J.Hudson) to try to read a dos (fat) formatted md without success, does anyone know hot to read a fat hd from smsq ? The format of HD on Qx0 is Atari compatible, not PC. This means that so far native access from Qx0 to PC part is not possible (yet ??). And coexistence of a disk on both OS/hardware might be problematic (extended partitions are GEM tagged or MS/Linux tagged) Also, the byte order of pointer in the table might be different (seems to remember the Linux on Qx0 need to use atari-fdisk, not the classical fdisk) Also, MBR might start with some magic code which some hardware follow blindly if it's a boot disk! The mtools might only implement fat12 (floppy). To access a HD, you need support of fat16 (at least). Also, on a floppy, there is no partition table, whereas there is nearly always one on HD (only exception I know: Qx0 with a single partition made with format on a blank disk). Assuming a compatible partition table, you would still need to understand the partition-filesystem... } Obviously all this is valid only for q60, the same md attached to an usb reader is perfectly visible from qpc like all the other dos disks. Of course, because the access is done by the MS-OS which show it to QPC! QPC does not perform hardware-IO itself, IIRC.
