Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!ihnp4!ihlpm!jmdavis
From: jmdavis@ihlpm.ATT.COM (Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Damaged KS disks (was Re: Fix for empty drives)
Summary: Error Correcting?
Message-ID: <1888@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 16 May 88 22:13:55 GMT
References: <12738@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <6943@swan.ulowell.edu>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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> Aside to old-time KS hackers ... I purposely munged the checksum to

I am not one, but I'll hazard a guess...

> see what the A1000 would do with an invalid KS ... nothing!  As if it
> didn't even check it.  So I munged more blocks (ASCII text, not code)
> and it still booted fine.  Whazzup?

Depending on the damage inflicted I could suspect that is it some
sort of error correcting scheme, it didn't complain since it fixed
it itself.

On a side note, did your screen change colors, like red or green at
boot time?

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