Re: Amiga HArd Disk on intel linux platform

[Ron Flory <rjflory@feist.com>]

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> 
> Hi, I am wondering if it is possible to use the an Hard disk that I
> use in a dual boot system (AmigaOS and Linux) on a Linus/intel system.
> I tried but the partition table is not recognized from the
> linux/intel.
> 
> Should I activate someting in the kernel setup? I had a look at
> 2.2.3 on intel but I didn't find a solution.

 I have done this with 2.0.x kernels, and just now verified that it
still works under 2.2.2-ac7.

 I have affs support modularized.

      mount -t affs /dev/sda2 /mnt/ 

 ...just worked from my x86 laptop (PCMCIA SCSI).  The disk was
partitioned and formatted under AmigaDos, so you should be able to get
yours working if you fiddle with your settings a bit.

ron