Subject: Re: FAT partitions
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Gunther Nikl <gni@gecko.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 06/25/2002 12:06:28
On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:41:43PM +0200, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> > +#define DOST_FAT	0x46415400	/* 'FATx' MSDOS partition */
> 
> Is this a predefined partition type under some AmigaOS filesystem handler?

  Yes. This dostype is used by the AmigaOS handler Fat95. AFAIK, CrossDOS
  uses 'MSDx'.

> Else using the partition type of 0x4e425508 ("NBU\8") would have served
> you.

  I tried that and it didn't work (maybe because there was no MSDOS
  filesystem support in the kernel?).

  Gunther