Why do you assume I have not tried? I have tried. Lots. Did it work? Not really.
No, you haven't.
So you are calling me a liar?
Well, you also did not believe me regarding LoadModule not detecting CD32 correctly, did you...
DosTypes and support for partition mounting did not change in CrossDos. Not at all. It's this way since CrossDos shipped, and by that I mean "back in CBM days".
That means it is only compatible to _really_ old MSDOS FDISK ways of building the MBR and EBR... hm.
I'm just re-iterating what you should have in your manual with 3.1 in first place, and apparently, what people forgot. There is a reason why this is 3.1.4 and not 3.2.
Please point me to the page in the OS 3.1 manual that speaks of this - I have them all, even searchable online, and I only find vague references to mounting Syquest cartridges as "D:".
http://amiga.nvg.org/amiga/reference/AmigaOS3.5_Manual/workbench/book-main122.htmlhttp://amiga.nvg.org/amiga/amigafaq/AmigaFAQ_65.htmlAnd "the official manuals" are no better...
https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaOS_Manual:_Workbench_CrossDOSI have "Das Buch" here somewhere, maybe it is mentioned in that one?
JanusTools comes with some funny info... "CrossDos will not work with the 0x4D534800 DOSType" (
http://aminet.net/package/docs/help/CDJanusTools)
So the partition assignment to letters is *not* changed, the dos types are *not changed*. And please, don't tell me it is particularly hard to adjust the dos type to the types I provided, and change the name of the icon (potentially) to the naming rules I provided. Despite this being all "old news".
Old news, yet...
CrossDos is also pretty much new, at least many major parts have been exchanged
So what to think. What has really changed and what has not, how does this relate to the official "professional" CrossDOS 7.x Gold etc.
And how do one know in the first place...
Use the manual from 3.1. Really.
Well, I do have the manuals, all of them, and they are also available online, in multiple languages... searchable.
https://archive.org/details/Amiga_OS_3.1_DOS_1993_Commodore_DE/page/n13?q=CrossDOSFileSystemIf someone could point me to the correct manual and what page that speaks in detail of how CrossDOSFileSystem deals with extended partitions? No?
Well, since documentation is so... intangible... and "nothing at all" has changed, looking at sources can reveal what the problem is.
* If DOSType = "ID_MSDOS_DISK_HD", expect a valid FDISK-type
* hard disk partition table. It will then parse the partition
* table to find the desired partition. It handles MSDOS 3.0
* primary and extended partitions. New types of MSDOS partitions
* 4.0 and beyond can be supported if the veil of secrecy is removed
* from this generally proprietry information.
So then, CrossDOS simply cannot replace FAT95 in many cases, as it simply does not know jack about "modern" incarnations of MBR/EBR.