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Re: Partitioning a real drive with WUAE and OS3.9
« on: January 15, 2010, 05:41:53 PM »
Quote from: Thomas;538458
Go to Add/Update, remove the SmartFileSystem entry, click on Add and select the file (L:SmartFileSystem). Now a window appears where you can overwrite the identifier and version information. Overtype 43465300 by 53465300 and press enter. If you now go back to Change, you should have SFS/00 in the list.

The numbers are hexadecimal representations of ASCII values:

43 = C
46 = F
53 = S
00 = non-printable character

Therefore 43465300 stands for CFS/00 and 53465300 stands for SFS/00.

The section to read is in SFS_OLD.guide -> Installation -> Making SFS available for use.

The same procedure applies to every file system, only the identifier is different.

Likewise

44 = D
4F = O
53 = S

for the Amiga file system. The last byte determines the extra features:

01 = FastFileSystem
03 = FastFileSystem International
05 = FastFileSystem International + Directory Cache
07 = FastFileSystem with long file names (new in OS 4.0)

That's really interesting stuff thanks Thomas :)

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