[comp.sys.amiga] A2090 Disk format questions

phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) (03/24/88)

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Hello Gang:

Quickie question: Anyone know what the contents and location of the boot
block and partition table on a disk drive formatted for use with an A2090
controller looks like? (Or is that proprietary information?)

Thanks,
Phil
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page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (03/24/88)

phils@tekigm2.TEK.COM (Philip E Staub) wrote:
>contents and location of the boot block and partition table 

Boot block is really two blocks, 0 and 1.  Those are the 'Reserved'
blocks alluded to in the Mountlist.

AmigaDOS does not support partition tables; the information is all
contained in the Mountlist - a different entry for each partition.

This is for the a2090, I know the Supra HD has partition tables,
but they are specific to the Supra drive.

..Bob
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