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- From: Avi Lev <avil@sapiens.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: File System Format Documentation
- Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 09:58:11 +0200
- Organization: Sapiens Technologies
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- farren user wrote:
- >
- > Jun-shik_Whang@avid.com (Jun-Shik Whang) writes:
- >
- > >just need to know the structure of an Amiga floppy disk format (i.e.
- > >its sector size, number of sectors per disk, location and structure of
- > >catalog/directory and block allocation information, etc..). Would
- > >anyone know where I might find this information?
-
- Well, the physical layout is: 80 tracks,11 sectors per track and
- all data is MFM encoded, the first 2 blocks of track 0 are
- bootblock code and for the rest you'll have to get your hands on
- the 'Amiga guru book' which explains everything you want to know
- about filing system and more mucho MORE!!! i don't think there's
- online documentation about it even on the aminet because this
- would take a long time to write and it's already written on
- paper such as the book i've mentioned. i would like to develop
- the same thing only in the opposite direction and i would
- appreciate any pointers you might have on the mac side, i don't
- think the mac has this kind of information online somewhere,
- does it? sorry i couldn't be of more help but if you're
- determined to do this, then follow the above advice and it'll
- get you going in the right direction.
- Avi.
-