Technical information

 The Information about DOS/FAT Partitions provides an in-depth presentation of the DOS/FAT file

system.

 The Information about TOS&DOS Partitions provides an in-depth presentation of the TOS&DOS

file system as created and used by PPDRIVER and HDDRIVER.

Notes:

Although the information presented here applies to generic ASCI/SCSI Hard Drives, specific details are

provided for the CosmosEx, UltraSatan and Satan Devices.

Note that the Satan Drive has the following limitations:

 The maximum size officially supported is 1GB SD card. However the PPDRIVER hard disk

driver allows usage of 2GB SD Card.

 SDHC cards are not handled,

 Only one SD card can be plugged,

 And Satan Drive only works with the PPDRIVER and HDDRIVER hard disk drivers.

 A word of caution: All the procedures described in this document have been tested on Atari ST

and STE. To a certain extent they should also apply to Atari Mega ST(e) / TT / Falcon. However no

test has been performed on these platforms and therefore some of the described procedures

might not work on these platforms. Use at your own risk!

The information presented here is based on a compilation of many documents as well as personal

knowledge and experimentations. The reference section lists most of the sources used in this

document and, whenever possible, links to the originals are provided.

Enjoy!