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RJT> Did a search for the partition table sig bytes of 55AA, RJT> and I found a *bunch* of instances of it, in most if not RJT> all cases at the end of a sector, a fact I found RJT> interesting since I don't remember prior setups on that RJT> particular physical drive. I remember 55AA from the CP/M days--that was the bit pattern written to newly formatted diskettes. 55AA = 0101010110101010 It makes a nice frequency for MFM detectors. ... To some lawyers all facts are created equal. ___ MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.35 ---* Origin: The Bare Bones BBS (1:105/360) SEEN-BY: 10/3 345 20/11 102/943 105/360 106/1 2 3 1234 2000 116/35 123/500 SEEN-BY: 124/5025 128/187 130/803 140/1 143/2 150/220 154/15 167/133 201/505 SEEN-BY: 226/600 229/1000 2000 3000 249/116 266/12 267/200 280/5003 333/0 SEEN-BY: 379/1 1200 396/45 633/267 270 712/848 2404/201 2624/306 3634/12 SEEN-BY: 3800/1 @PATH: 105/360 106/2000 1 379/1 633/267 |
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