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To hopefully end this endless discussion on use of drive C for a ramdisk,
this is what I know from experience, BIOS listing and handbooks:
 
                     - Drive C is reserved for the first partition of
                       the harddisk, normally desktop.inf is saved to
                       the root directory of the BOOT disk, except if you
                       have a drive C. The logic behind this is: if you
                       have a Harddisk you still can't officially boot
                       from it, to make life a bit easier for the owners
                       of harddisks Atari decided that if there is a drive C
                       (first partion of a harddisk) desktop.inf and all
                        ....ACC files will be read from it, that's why
                       desktop.inf is saved to C. The problem with this kludge
                       is that it blurrs the destinction between what is your
                       bootdisk and what not: if you have a bootable harddisk
                       you don't need this kludge anyway, but you can't boot
                       from A: without TOS accessing drive C: and reading
                       the desk accessories from there. I hope Atari will throw
                       this part of the code out in the next ROM release
                       (if ever).
 
                     - Small c is reserved for the cartridge port. In the first
                       release of TOS the Install Drive item didn't capitilize
                       the drive letter entered and if you entered 'c' for your
                       RamDisk you ended up with it being called 'Cartridge'.
 
                    Simon Poole
                    K538915@CZHRZU1A.BITNET