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From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A simple question about 3.5" disks.
Message-ID: <637@caslon.cs.arizona.edu>
Date: 10 Jan 91 22:49:20 GMT
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In article <16536@smunews.UUCP> bjc@smunews.UUCP (Betty J. Clay) writes:
>In article <1151@tmiuv0.uucp> rick@tmiuv0.uucp writes:
>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.  [...]

Actually, I believe that the root directory can be located anywhere as well,
if you're willing to poke around in the boot block. (Not that anyone who
isn't writing a disk handler should care...)


>Betty
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>Betty Clay
>76702.337@compuserve.com
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