Subject: Re: Reading DOS formatted ZIP drive
To: Franz Urbanski <fou@on-luebeck.de>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/03/1998 13:21:04
> Wow, that's a good idea.
>
> The only thing I need, is a low level SCSI-Editor (like SEDIT for MacOS,
> which I have) and the correct input for the MBR and the PM entries.
>
> If you could give me the structure of these tables, I'd like to try it.
>
> BTW my first try without knowing the exact structure was:
>
> Get 2 PM entries of a NetBSD formatted disk
If the disk only had one partition on it, that should work.
> Copy them to sector #1 and #2 of the MSDOS disk
You need to keep the upper few bytes of sector #1 of the MS DOS disk
as that's where the MBR partitions live...
> Modify the block numbers of the PM
> Copy the beginning of sector #0 of the NetBSD disk ("ER" 0x02000003 )
> to sector #0 of the DOS disk.
>
> Result: disklabel and mount_msdos did no longer complain about "missing
> disklabel", but the mount told me, "wrong parameter".
What did disklabel say about the drive?
Take care,
Bill