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Article #32543Magic Sac and Hard Drive
From: Vincent Manis
Date: Mon, 16 May 1988 19:30
Date: Mon, 16 May 1988 19:30
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Jeff Gortakowsky mentioned that he'd had trouble installing a hard disk
system under Magic Sac. So did I; I called Data Pacific, and they advised
me that you have to go through a longwinded process to install it. The
basic problem is that Apple's HD20 driver assumes there's a system on
a hard disk, if it's connected. Apple disks (and compatibles) all come
with a system folder; Atari drives don't (some trivial licencing problem
:-).
What you have to do is to create a tiny little partition (1MB or so) formatted
with the Mac (flat) file system. Copy your system to that (using a floppy
system disk with no HD20 driver on it). Then reboot with another disk *with*
HD20, copy that system to your real partition, and you're away. This is a
dumb way of doing it, but blame Apple, not David Small.
Vincent Manis | manis@cs.ubc.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncc!alberta!ubc-cs!faculty.cs.ubc.ca!manis From: manis@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Magic Sac and Hard Drive Message-ID: <2603@ubc-cs.UUCP> Date: 16 May 88 19:30:01 GMT References: <8805141232198DE.BDWZ@Mars.UCC.UMass.EDU> <930@elmgate.UUCP> Sender: nobody@ubc-cs.UUCP Reply-To: manis@faculty.cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis) Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 22