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From: Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.bc.ca (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: MSDOS Floppy format?
Message-ID: <6524@mindlink.bc.ca>
Date: 27 Jun 91 02:28:56 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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    Does anybody know anything about the disk structures of MSDOS disks?
 I am writing an AutoDiskChange type utility for SCSI floppies and I
 need to be able to recognize MSDOS disks.
    Determining AmigaDOS disks is no problem. Block zero is full of:

(Addr)    (Hex)                                (Ascii)
00366624  444F5301 444F5301 444F5301 444F5301  DOS.DOS.DOS.DOS.

    So far, the MSDOS disks I have looked at all start out:

0038CFAC  EB349043 444D2020 332E3200 02020100  .4.CDM  3.2.....

    Is this a fluke?
    Anybody got a pointer to a succinct description of MSDOS file formats?
    -het

 "People in North America are so affluent and so unhappy,
  it seems all out of whack." -Heather Lockely [African volunteer teacher]

    Harvey Taylor      Meta Media Productions
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