Nice. :-) I would possibly add an option to ASCD to create such "better"
disks where DOS is outside the first 80 tracks.
But how to do it exactly? What procedure uses the regular SAMDOS2 to load
itself? It uses the standard procedure? I mean does it check two last bytes
of each sector to find the next one? I am suspicious about this. As fas as I
remember sometimes I had hard times trying to add a DOS to a nonbootable
disk, and I always though it is not only the first sector, but whole SAMDOS
what must be placed at the start of the disk. Or maybe the sectors must be
used one after another? Anybody knows this?
It is different in MasterDOS. I never has any problems making a disk
bootable with master dos, so it surely can be anywhere, as long as the first
sector is at 4-1.
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Mgr.(MSc.) Ales Keprt (also known as Aley)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Edwin Blink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no>
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: How ROM knowns wheter a disk is "bootable"
From: Frode Tenneboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
But you could put the rest of the DOS anywhere you like on the disc.
Cookie
did that to "good" effect in MaxiDOS/QDOS where he put the DOS on tracks
80-82.
Just side one
BTW if you wish you could store DOS anywhere into the directory as long as
there is one
slot before it that has both filetype and 1st char of filename zero to
mark
end of directory.
When storing the remaining 19 sectors of SAMDOS at track 2,sector 2 then
there would
be room for 41 files on such a disc. :-)
Edwin
