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From: braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Strange bug in FAT allocation
Message-ID: <4681@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 4 May 88 14:07:19 GMT
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Reply-To: braner@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (braner)
Organization: Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University, Ithaca NY
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Summary: MS-DOS doesn't mind if you DO put in random serial numbers

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The utility IBMFMT, which formats MS-DOS disks on the ST,
in its later version (1.1?), does overwrite the critical
3 bytes with a random serial number.  MS-DOS does not
seem to mind, and it's safer on the ST side.  (I have no
idea what DCFORMAT does.)  The ST doesn't mind 3-sector
FATs either.

- Moshe Braner

PS: still looking for a used 520ST system.