Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 20:03:49 -0600 (CST)
From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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Subject: [opendos] Re: [opendos-developer] OpenDOS + Win95 w/FAT32?  
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On Thu, 13 Feb 1997, Mark Habersack wrote:
> Once upon a time (on 11 Feb 97 at 21:39) mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on. said:
> > > about we call it INTEND?
> > > As far as I know, _any_ disk reserves the first sector for the media
> > > information, if not a volume label, then a serial number.
> > Yes, I'm sure that every disk contains a serial number too, but
> It's not always stored in sector 0. This sector contains just the OS loader 
> code which has not commonly defined format (I'm talking about partition BR, 

And we was not talking about Hard Disks, we was talking about Floppies. 
As far as I know, _every_ piece of removeable soft rotating media uses
some means to ID itself to the OS, Macoppy & IBMoppy are two different
filesystems yet not only do they use the same drive, but same sectoring,
and you can buy a >piece of software< which does the translation on the
fly between machine type A and floppy type B.  Generally the 'standard'
method is the first sector on the first track using the first head.

Also, if my memory serves me right, this applies to Borelli boxes too.

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