[Parted-maintainers] Bug#239816: libparted Atari partition table support

[Michael Schmitz]

John,

as long as libparted (or some other PC side kernel magic automagically 
invoked by libparted - dm??) does take care of byte-swapping IDE data 
on the fly, go for it. I had a quick glance at the code and could find 
nothing to that effect.

Otherwise, your only option would be to run gparted with these patches 
natively on ARAnyM, with the byte swapping taken care of by ARAnyM.

Cheers,

	Michael

Am 14.12.2013 um 11:54 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz:

> Hi!
>
> While chatting with someone who was trying to install Linux onto his
> ATARI Falcon 060, we stumbled into the task getting the hard disk
> partitioned for the ATARI Falcon to be used.
>
> Since I already successfully created an Amiga partition table with
> the help of gparted and libparted, I thought it would be as easy as
> that for ATARI partitions, too.
>
> Unfortunately, libparted currently doesn't support ATARI partition
> tables. However, there is a long-standing bug report open which
> contains the necessary patches for libparted to support that [1].
>
> Since we're in the process of reviving the m68k port of Debian,
> I guess we should also put efforts into getting this patch finally
> to upstream so people can prepare their ATARI hard disks on their
> Linux PCs before using them in the ATARI or change partitions
> once Linux is running on their ATARIs.
>
> Adrian
>
>> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=239816
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