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From: bjc@smunews.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A simple question about 3.5" disks.
Message-ID: <16536@smunews.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 91 03:52:06 GMT
References: <90340.142716IO00844@MAINE.BITNET> <1151@tmiuv0.uucp>
Reply-To: bjc@smunews.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX
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In article <1151@tmiuv0.uucp> rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes:
>In article <90340.142716IO00844@MAINE.BITNET>, IO00844@MAINE.BITNET (Zero Batzell) writes:
>> On what track is the directory located on a 3.5" disk? (Having had experience w
>> ith 5.25" disks before upgrading to an amiga, I DO know that the directory on a
>>  5.25" disk is located on track 18.).  Also, I am interested in any other infor
>> mation having to do with the internals of 3.5" disks.         (((ZERO)))



The question was, on what track is the directory located on a 3.5" disk.  On n
an Amiga floppy, the root directory is in sector 800, which is on track 40.  The user directories can be anywhere.  You can find information about the disks
in the Bantam AMIGADOS MANUAL, and can have fun looking through the disk 
with any of the disk editors available.  I prefer DISKED that is on the
developers' toolkit disk, but many others prefer DISKX or SECTORAMA.  You
should find DISKX and SECTORAMA on almost any Amiga BBS or on any of the
major information services.

Betty
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