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#: 129306 S8/Amiga at WorkForum unknown
    11-Jun-88 22:44:12
Sb: #129244-Saf-T-Net
Fm: Bob Rakosky 75156,336
To: BILL LEACH 71330,2621

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I'm not sure why your question was directed to me, or attached to a saf-T-net thread. I'm not real knowledgable about the AmigaDOS disk structures, but I think that the 'checksum' that these disk editors use/refer to (looking in the AmigaDOS Tech. Ref. Manual – LongWord 5 of the sector) does not apply to the Boot block on the disk partition (Block 0). For a non-bootable disk (or partition), the contents of the Boot Block are meaningless, except for the first four bytes, which identify the type of disk it is ==> "KICK" for a Kickstart disk, "DOS " for a standard AmigaDOS disk, and anything else for a "Not a DOS disk". Are you dreaming? I don't know – what was that funny little pill I saw you taking? <grin>