Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!van-bc! From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Rigid Disk Block specs Message-ID: <1079@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> Date: 23 Jan 90 11:56:08 GMT Lines: 27 Return-Path: To: van-bc!rnews In , liberato@drivax.UUCP (Jimmy Liberato) writes: > >Again, I anyone has information on the RDB specification >please contact me. > The files hardblocks.i and hardblocks.h, define the RDB. If you don't have them, they are available as part of the latest include files, on the 'Native Developer's Upgrade' you can get from CBM (CATS) for about $20 or $25. If the GVP allows you to define a partition with a DEVS:Mountlist entry, you can probably make a mountlist to include cylinder 0 and then use something like Sectorama or DiskX to look at the RDB area. Sectorama won't be much good for making changes, since it seems to insist on having a valid checksum of the block in longword 5, but DiskX will likely be able to write any changes out. Good luck. -larry -- "Cavett Emptor - Let the talk show host beware!" - Evan Marcus +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | // Larry Phillips | | \X/ lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips | | COMPUSERVE: 76703,4322 -or- 76703.4322@compuserve.com | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+