franco@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (03/17/87)
There is one more thing that must be done to David Small's 400k fast formatter (START - latest issue) in order to make it useful. The executable given in START always sets the disk serial number to 0. This is interesting because, according to the source code, the executable should set the disk serial number to a random number. I suppose the executable provided in START was a preliminary version. Small probably realized there was a problem and changed the sources, but neglected to send the updated executables to START. All is not lost, however. In sector 3 there is the HEX string FFFFFFFF. Simply change it to HEX 0FFFFFFF to get random serial numbers.