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From: psurge@cs.utexas.edu (Troy Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Boot Sector Writer
Keywords: Boot Sector
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Date: 1 Dec 90 17:00:59 GMT
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I was looking through my ST internals book, and fond an (X?)BIOS routine to
write a boot sector on a disk.  Now, if anyone read (and hardly anyone replied)
my last post about my boot sector on the HD crashed and I wanted a program to
rewrite my boot sector. 

What I want to know is is it possible to write a program (hopefully in Personal
pascal because that is the only language I have on floppy, my Sozobon C was on
the hard disk!!) that will ask for sizes and the like and pass all the 
appropriate parameters to this routine.  (Ok, I know that can be done) BUT,
will I get a boot sector on my Hard Drive, or does this routine only work on
floppy disks.

Sorry I cannot tell you the routine name, I am not at home with my ST Interals
book.  However if there is confusion and those "in the know" do not know what 
routine I am refering to, then I will post the procedure name when I get home,
if someone asks about it.

For those who do know what I am talking about, what parameters do I need to
pass for this routine to work.  The book only discusses the use of Floppy disks,
But I need to know for my Hard Disk (20megs, 4 partitions).

Thanks,

                                Troy Carpenter
                        Department of Computer Sciences
                        THE University of Texas, Austin
                              psurge@cs.utexas.edu

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