Subject: Re: FAT partitions
To: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: port-amiga
Date: 06/20/2002 21:41:43
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On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 04:06:07PM +0200, Gunther Nikl wrote:
> Hello!
>=20
> Since NetBSD/amiga doesn't have write support for AmigaDOS FFS partitions
> and since the available BFFSFilesystem for AmigaOS doesn't support partit=
ions
> beyound >4GB I needed a new approach to exchange data between NetBSD and
> AmigaOS. The only filesystem that both AmigaOS and NetBSD support for
> reading and writing is the MSDOS FAT filesystem. To really get it working
> a small patch to adosglue.h and disksubr.c is required. The patch is atta=
ched.
> I was able to mount a FAT partition successfully. Maybe others find it us=
eful
> too.
=2E..
> +#define DOST_FAT	0x46415400	/* 'FATx' MSDOS partition */

Is this a predefined partition type under some AmigaOS filesystem handler?
Else using the partition type of 0x4e425508 ("NBU\8") would have served you.

Regards,
	-is

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