> Sunrise IDE uses a not-so-standard way. Jon confirmed that IDE
> uses all available space in sector 0 to save partition table. So, a PC
> will recognize only the first 4 partitions... But, doing this makes
> partition locating faster on MSX. :)
Uf... I hate these non-standard tricks. Sorry. 8-)
MegaSCSI uses actually two systems at the same time to manage
partitions:
1) The mentioned standard partition table. This allows to use any
Mega-SCSI formatted device with a PC, and is the table used by my
PS.COM.
2) In each partition there is a hidden file, MEGASCSI.TBL, with
information about the physical starting sector of each partition. This
information is used by CP.COM, and is of course faster than reading the
standard partition table.
> So, SCSI users allways have to know the IDs of their SCSI devices?
> (ugh... should I write write the numbers in a
> post-it
> and put it in the front of my monitor? :P)
On the case of MegaSCSI, there is no need for this.
Using ESET you assign one device for each drive assigned to MegaSCSI. So
you must set up a device for each drive only once, and from that point,
worry only about partition numbers.
For example, say that you assign 6 drives for MegaSCSI. Then A: could be
ESE-RAM, B: and C: could be for hard disk, D: and E: could be for ZIP,
and F: for CD-ROM. You set up this using ESET, and after this, a PS C:7
(or CP C:7) means: I want to assign partition 7 of my HD to drive C:
However, PS.COM allows you to optionally specify the ID of a device to
be attached to one drive, together with the partition number. For
example PS C:7 5 means: let's attach device with ID 5 to drive C:, and
then select partition 7.
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