Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!David_W_Tamkin
From: David_W_Tamkin@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: {Feeling embarrassed} Sector Protection, continued
Message-ID: <10763@cup.portal.com>
Date: 2 Nov 88 01:41:55 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Sigh...and I can't even connect this to the same thread as the first partial
article since it takes a day's turnaround for a post from Portal to return.

At any rate, the relative file idea didn't work.  Does anyone know a way to
protect sectors that are not in a file from being de-allocated by a validation
on a 1571 or 1541, short of using a write-protect tab or changing the DOS
version byte, so that other writes can still be done to the disk without
having to reallocate the boot sectors after each collect?

If Commodore had designed the 128 ROM to look for a boot signal in track 1,
sector 0, that began $00,$01 or $00,$00 instead of "cbm", then pointing a
dummy file would have worked.  CBM really dropped the ball on that one.

David W. Tamkin    Post Office Box 567542     Norridge, Illinois  60656-7542
David_W_Tamkin@cup.portal.com  | |  sun!portal!cup.portal.com!david_w_tamkin
     Portal's other customers speak for themselves; I speak for myself;
    and Portal's management speaks for itself ... in more ways than one.

Now I'm off to learn the difference between the O key and the P key so as to 
stop posting fragments of articles.