SFS formated drives and booting with no startup-sequence

[HardStep]

Hi,
my WB partition uses FFS and other 2 partitions SFS.
Is there a way to see the other 2 partitions also when booting with no startup sequence?
Thanks.

[Amigaz]

Yes, if they are within the first 4 gb of your harddrive

[motorollin]

I don't see what difference it would make whether you boot with startup-sequence or not. SFS doesn't get activated by a patch when the system boots, it is available as soon as the RDB is examined by Kickstart. So why would the partitions not be available when booting with no startup-sequence?

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moto

[Piru]

@motorollin

So why would the partitions not be available when booting with no startup-sequence?

SetPatch not executed, and no new scsi.device with >4GB support loaded?

[HardStep]

Actually the partitions are out of the first 4G.
But is it possible to mount them manually?

[adolescent]

Like Piru says, you can run setpatch and they will appear.  (Setpatch also does things like enable AGA, CPU caches, etc. so it's not really a bad thing)

[mr_a500]

Actually the partitions are out of the first 4G.
But is it possible to mount them manually?

If you want to see partitions beyond 4Gb without running setpatch, the only way you can do without rebooting is to have a 3.9 ROM - which contains the updated scsi.device. (did somebody out there make a batch of 3.9 ROMs?)

Otherwise, you have to use either loadmodule or setpatch to update the scsi.device - and both will require a reboot. I think there's also IDEfix97 or something, but that also requires reboot.

[motorollin]

@Piru
Oh yeah, forgot about the need to patch scsi.device with setpatch. Part of the luxury of a Kickflash is not having to worry about that!

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moto