UltraSatanSDCardwithLinux - Revision history

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‎Check that your Kernel has Atari Partition Table Support

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‎Reading Data from your UltraSatan SD Card on Linux

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‎Reading Data from your UltraSatan SD Card on Linux

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‎Verifying the partitions

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‎Mounting the partitions =

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 and the data is accessible under /mnt
 ==== Other Unixes ====
 Since NetBSD also have AHDI support, this should also work, provided you have ''options DISKLABEL_AHDI'' in your kernel conf.

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    grep ATARI_PARTITION /boot/config-$(uname -r)
-The Linux kernel has support for the Atari Partition Table format is  a relic of the Linux/68k port of the 90's. It's activated by default on Debian and Ubuntu.
+Kernel support for the Atari Partition Table format is a relic of the Linux/68k port of the 90's. It's activated by default on Debian and Ubuntu.
 ==== Making sure the card is detected ====

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 == Reading Data from your UltraSatan SD Card on Linux ==
-If you've followed the tutorial from http://joo.kie.sk/?page_id=306, you can use it straight ahead on Linux !
+Just follow the tutorial from tutorial from http://joo.kie.sk/?page_id=306 for partitioning on the Atari side.
 NB: according to http://hddriver.seimet.de/en/faq.html, "Why can big TOS partitions not be mounted under Linux",   you shouldn't create partitions bigger than 256MB if you want to mount them easily on Linux.
 ==== Making sure the card is detected ====
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   [14098.072876]  mmcblk0: AHDI p1 p2 p3 p4
-This means we have a SD card identified as '''mmcblk0''', on which we have a partition table of Format '''AHDI''' with 4 partitions. Yes the Linux kernel has support for the Atari Partition Table format, a relic of the Linux/68k port of the 90's. You can check that the support is activated on you kernel with
+This means we have a SD card identified as '''mmcblk0''', on which we have a partition table of Format '''AHDI''' with 4 partitions.
 ==== Verifying the partitions ====

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 == Reading Data from your UltraSatan SD Card on Linux ==
-If you've followed the tutorial from http://joo.kie.sk/?page_id=306, you can use it straight ahead on Linux ! Note that according to http://hddriver.seimet.de/en/faq.html, Why can big TOS partitions not be mounted under Linux? you shouldn't create partitions bigger than 256MB if you want to mount them easily on Linux.
+If you've followed the tutorial from http://joo.kie.sk/?page_id=306, you can use it straight ahead on Linux !
 ==== Making sure the card is detected ====

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   [14098.072876]  mmcblk0: AHDI p1 p2 p3 p4
-This means we have a SD card identified as '''mmcblk0''', on which we have a partition table of Format '''AHDI''' with 4 partitions. Yes the Linux kernel has support for the Atari Partition Table format, a relic of the Linux/68k port of the 90's.
+This means we have a SD card identified as '''mmcblk0''', on which we have a partition table of Format '''AHDI''' with 4 partitions. Yes the Linux kernel has support for the Atari Partition Table format, a relic of the Linux/68k port of the 90's. You can check that the support is activated on you kernel with
 ==== Verifying the partitions ====
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 and the data is accessible under /mnt

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	So here we have two partitions of type '''FAT16''', one has a size of '''242MB''', the other one '''28.44MB'''		So here we have two partitions of type '''FAT16''', one has a size of '''242MB''', the other one '''28.44MB'''

		+	Note that the unusual '''sector size'''' is perfectly fine and normal for an Atari.

	==== Mounting the partitions ====		==== Mounting the partitions ====

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−	==== Mounting the partitions =====	+	==== Mounting the partitions ====

	Altough the sd card does no autoimount when inserting, manually mounting works fine, you just issue:		Altough the sd card does no autoimount when inserting, manually mounting works fine, you just issue:

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	So here we have two partitions of type '''FAT16''', one has a size of '''242MB''', the other one '''28.44MB'''		So here we have two partitions of type '''FAT16''', one has a size of '''242MB''', the other one '''28.44MB'''
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		+	==== Mounting the partitions =====
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		+	Altough the sd card does no autoimount when inserting, manually mounting works fine, you just issue:
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		+	sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt
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		+	and the data is accessible under /mnt