[iyonix-support] Re: Bugs in SCSIFS?

Quoting Kade Hansson <kade.hansson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Dave Higton wrote:
> > Presumably it would be possible to plug in a drive formatted to
> > ext2, ext3, reiserfs, or whatever, and RISC OS should be able
> > to read and write it.  Whether that's of any use to anybody is
> > another matter.
> >
> > One other thing: I think it's time we appropriated a partition
> > type code for RISC OS.
> >   
> Perhaps, but you do know that RISC OS FileCore/ADFS (to be referred to 
> just as ADFS from here on out) traditionally does not use DOS-style 
> partition tables. Instead, ADFS assumes that the first partition of a 
> disc is its own. (Or if not, it passes it around for things like DOSFS 
> to claim.)

Yes, I understand; but there seems no reason /in/ /principle/
why ADFS shouldn't be able to cope with a RISC OS partition.
BDFS does, AIUI.  You "simply" (!) read everything relative
to the first sector of the ADFS partition.

Dave
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