Subject: Re: Reading DOS formatted ZIP drive
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Franz Urbanski <fou@ON-Luebeck.DE>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/04/1998 19:59:53
On Sun, Aug 03, 1997 at 01:20:16PM -0700, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> You need to keep the upper few bytes of sector #1 of the MS DOS disk
> as that's where the MBR partitions live...
Yea, I got it!
I was browsing just a bit through the ZIP disk, and then there it was
the "real" boot sector. It was located in sector #16 ($20).
Thus I modified the PM-entry of sd1a to start at sector #16, and I
finally could mount the drive.
Thanks for your advice.
Franz
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