... and as a follow-up: when using the regular 512k ROM and booting in Hatari + Gemdos HD, I get C: as usual. However to my surprise, saving desktop complains that A: is not found (correct, it isn't). I'd expect to save EMUDESK.INF to C:, same as TOS does in such setup.
Not sure whether this is something missing in EmuTOS or Hatari but I didn't want to post two similar posts in two different mailing lists.
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