FreeLists / openbeosstorage / [openbeosstorage] Re: Amiga RDB

["Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Ingo Weinhold" <bonefish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > I still have a working Amiga here, and MorphOS, which come with 
> > > the 
> > > Pegasos, is AmigaOS compatible.
> > > I even still develop an application for it which should be 
> > > finished 
> > > soon! :-)
> > That's a bit scary, I have to admit. ;-)
> 
> Yeah, I know :-) But I started that application 7 years ago, and I 
> just 
> want it to be completed, I don't like leaving unfinished stuff behind 
> (as I have to do so often) :-)

Yes, I know very well, what you mean.

> > > I.e. you could have an Intel style partitioning block at the 
> > > beginning, 
> > > and the Amiga RDB on the same disk, describing the same layout. 
> > > At 
> > > least, I am pretty sure that no one used it that way yet, it 
> > > would 
> > > easily be possible to be able to switch your hard drives from one 
> > > system to the other while still being able to access (nearly) all 
> > > partitions. So we might just ignore it :-)
> > Sorry, I didn't get that. You mean, for disks with Amiga RDB, the 
> > user 
> > could additionally describe the partition layout using the Intel 
> > scheme 
> > and hence we can ignore the RDB? Mmh, while I'm usually a big fan 
> > of 
> > ignoring problems, I'd find this approach a bit... err... you know 
> > what 
> > I mean. :-)
> 
> What I meant was: it would be possible to do so, in theory, but I 
> don't 
> see an urgent reason to support that behaviour :-)
> We should give Amiga RDB the higher priority, because it's superior 
> to 
> the Intel partitioning scheme - but OTOH almost no one uses it, and 
> it 
> would slow down booting, so I wouldn't even consider doing that :-)
> So how does your ignoring side feel about this? :)

Confused basically. Do you want to ignore Amiga RDB, because virtually 
noone is using it, or ignore that it would be possible to have both RDB 
and Intel style partitions on the same disk?

CU, Ingo