On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 13:05, Aley Keprt wrote: > 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.
It does read the last two bytes and interpret them in the usual way. However, SamDOS's boot sector only knows how to read from the first side of the disk. So you will have difficulties you're adding to a disk with less than 10k left on the first side. MasterDOS can read from both sides. Andrew -- --- Andrew Collier ---- ---- http://www.intensity.org.uk/ --- -- r<2+ T<4* cSEL dMS hEn/CB<BL A4 S+*<++ C$++L/mP W- a-- Vh+seT+ (Cantab) 1.1.4
