Technical information

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References
 Master boot record from Wikipedia
 CHS conversion from Wikipedia
 Partition types - Andries Brouwer
 Disk partitioning from Wikipedia
 File Allocation Table From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 MS-DOS Partitioning Summary – Microsoft 2007
 Hard Disk Partitioning Primer - Mikhail Ranish
 AHDI 3.0 Release Notes – Atari, April 1980
 XHDI 1.30 Specifications – J.F. Reschke, 1999
 A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the BIOS – Atari 1998, 1989, 1990
 MS-DOS Programmer’s Reference V5 – Microsoft Press 1991
 UltraSatan User’s Guide – Jean Louis-Guérin December 2009
 Driver for ASCI/SCSI Atari disks – Pera Putnik & Jean Louis-Guerin
 Multibooters - Dual and Multibooting with Vista
 BigDOS – Rainer Seitel 2000
 Rainbow TOS (1.4) Release notes (different versions) – Atari here, here, and here
 UltraSatan project for ATARI ST – Jookie (Miroslav NOHAJ)
 How to partition your card using ICD Pro – Jookie
 How to partition your card using HDDRIVER – Jookie
 A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the BIOS – Atari 1998, 1989, 1990
 Towns' Little Guide to Revisions - Version 1.0 by John Townsend, Atari Corporation
 MBR/EBR Partition Tables
 Tools and References for the MBR and OS Boot Records
 Microsoft Technet Master Boot Record & Boot Sector
History
V1.2 September 2014. Added description for HDDRIVER 9.x (with multi TOS&DOS partitions) and
PPDRIVER 1.x packages. Removed information about HDDRIVER 8.x and 7.x (please refer to
version 1.1 document if you need information about these versions). Added information about
accessing multiple partitions from an USB stick. Lots of correction, cleanup, and additions have
been made especially in Chapter 9-11. Chapter 12 about analysis has removed in this version
because it needs a lot of work. It may be reincorporated in next revision of the document.
V1.1 January 2010: This is a major new release of the document. The Atari HD Partitioning Technical
information and User’s Guide have been merged into one document and title has been
changed. A lot of corrections have been done based on new tests. Major additions are: Added
section Fat File System General Information, FAT32 Information, Long file names, TOS&DOS
information in many places, common problems and solutions…
V1.0 November 2009: Initial Publication