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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!netcomsv!netcomsv!terapin!paulk
  2. From: paulk@terapin.com (Paul Kienitz)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
  4. Subject: Re: Going to the metal
  5. References: <1993Jan20.124704.29745@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
  6. Message-ID: <paulk.3emr@terapin.com>
  7. Date: 22 Jan 93 20:45:31 PST
  8. Organization: BBS
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  11. > Remember, a driver can even pop up requesters through Intuition.
  12. > Now do that without having 95% of the OS alive.
  13.  
  14. I wanna reinforce that.  There is NO WAY that an arbitrary third
  15. party disk controller or other non-floppy filesystem can work, unless
  16. the system is multitasking normally.
  17.  
  18. Bare-metal demo mode CANNOT access hard disks safely.
  19.