AmigaOS3.5 (902/967)

From:Colin Wenzel
Date:28 May 2000 at 14:28:01
Subject:Re: bootblock

On 28-May-00, Don Cox wrote:
> On 28-May-00, Duane A. Miller wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just checked the bootblock on several partitions, and they are all
>> bad, so I guess I was wrong about not having problems yet. I used
>> QuarterBack Tools to do the check, but I didn't check them after I
>> did the partitioning, so I don't know if theye were bad before. I'm
>> not having any problems because of it though. Mayby my QuaterBack
>> Tools 2.0 is to old to check the disks on the new OS?
>
> Quarterback Tools very often reports a problem with the boot block
> when there is no problem. I suspect a slight difference of opinion
> about some bit or other.
>
> You should have version 2.2.
>
> Disksalv (for drives up to 4 Gig) is available on a CD from Stefan
> Ossowski.

Quarterback tools doesn't work on block sizes other than 512.

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