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From: dyer@atari.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: hard disk info
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Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 13:39:14 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jun  7 13:39:14 1987
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in article <8706060844.AA10957@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, schoepf@DMZRZU71.BITNET says:
>       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>       |X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X|X| | | | |
>       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
>        \__________ __________/ | | | \______ 0 = read, 1 = read
>                   V            | | |________ 1 = ignore media change
>             "don't care"       | |__________ (hard disk only)
>                                |               1 = no retries
>                                |____________ (hard disk only)
>                                                1 = recno is absolute

Slight nitpick: Those aren't "don't care" bits --- they are
reserved and should be zero.  These bits are documented in the ST
BIOS Reference Manual....

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