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- From: ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: inventing new disk formats
- Message-ID: <ARA.92Sep2162014@camelot.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 21:20:14 GMT
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- Distribution: comp
- Organization: M.I.T. Artificial Intelligence Lab.
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- I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this, but here goes.
- Suggestions for other groups are welcome.
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- I'm working with an 80386 MSDOS system with an AMI bios. I am interested
- in learning how to do the following:
- (1) invent a new format for a floppy disk or hard disk (but I'll start with
- a floppy :-) ).
- (2) write the information on the floppy that tells the motherboard how to
- boot from it. It would be booting antoher operating system, that
- I would also have to write. I know how to physically write everything
- on the floppy: one just uses rawrite. But I don't know WHAT to write.
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- Can someone suggest how to learn this, e.g. books that explain it in
- words of one syllable, programs that help one do it, etc.?
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- Allan Adler
- ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu
-