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Re: Preparing for the amiga port



On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 05:27:21PM +0100, Florian Stoehr wrote:

> I think I'll write one - well, *IF* I can collect all information. For me, 
> something that creates a binary file one can write to the HD (plugged into 
> IDE on another machine) via "dd" would be enough - but perhaps this 
> *COULD* make a move into sysinst someday (there's no sysinst-install for 
> amiga yet afaik?).
> 
> Well, my problem is, I found information about the RDB structure, but it 
> contins various checksums and I have no information about the algorithms 
> used for the sums (well, not really googled much so far).

Get the RKRM "Devices", or read the netbsd sys/arch/amiga/amiga/disklabel.c
which can read the checksum. It is a simple 32bit big-endian checksum, I 
think.

Regards,
        -is
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