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- Version 1.1 of rdb Distribution is 2-Feb-94
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- rdb - edit the RDB (Rigid Disk Block) area of an AmigaDOS disk device
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- This program functions in place of HDToolBox for controllers which
- support the RDB area, but refuse to work with HDToolBox. My IVS
- TrumpCard is one such beast. rdb allows you to tweak most RDB
- parameters (including those HDToolBox won't let you touch), so if you
- don't know what you are doing, I don't recommend you use this program.
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- Usage:
- rdb disk.device unit [option | keyword=value . . . ]
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- Where
- disk.device is the physical disk device driver
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- unit is the physical disk unit on that driver
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- option can be any of:
- -rigid = edit fields in the Rigid Disk Block
- -part NAME = modify partition table parameters of NAME
- -newpart NAME = add new partition NAME to the RDB
- -promote NAME = make partition NAME first to be mounted
- -extract DOSTYPE = extract filesystem to a file
- -avail = report next available block in RDB
- -seglist = show seglist addresses for filesystems
- -help = give more help
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- keyword can be any of:
- Fields in the RDB disk header
- HostID BlockBytes RigidFlags BadBlockList PartitionList
- FileSysHeaderList DriveInit Cylinders Sectors Heads
- Interleave Park WritePreComp ReducedWrite StepRate
- RDBBlocksLo RDBBlocksHi LoCylinder HiCylinder CylBlocks
- AutoParkSeconds DiskVendor DiskProduct DiskRevision
- ControllerVendor ControllerProduct ControllerRev
- Fields in the Partition header
- Next Flags DevFlags DriveName Surfaces BlocksPerTrack
- Reserved PreAlloc Interleave LowCyl HighCyl NumBuffers
- BufMemType MaxTransfer Mask BootPri DosType
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- Lackage:
- The program is able to dump filesystem handlers from the
- rdb area to a regular Dos file. It should also allow
- transfers in the opposite direction. ie: Installation of
- a new filesystem handler in the rdb area. I intend on
- adding this to rdb when I get back to it.
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- Coolness:
- rdb is able to repair damaged RDB areas (well, it can fix
- the checksum on RDB blocks for you).
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- Parameters to rdb may appear in any order and are case-
- insensitive. Also, the "=" is optional for settings. Rdb
- will ask before making any changes to your disk structure.
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- Example:
- Say you want to change the boot priority of DH0: on your
- machine using scsi.device, unit 6
- rdb scsi.device 6 -part DH0 bootpri=10
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- This program was created by Chris Hooper (cdh@mtu.edu)
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