Subject: Re: Preparing for the amiga port
To: None <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 12/31/2004 17:37:21
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> 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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Thanks I'll have a look at that.
-Florian