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In article <simonjw-0301960838220001@dialup06.odyssey.apana.org.au>,
simonjw@odyssey.apana.org.au (Simon Wright) wrote:

> In article <leo-2812952132070001@adinstruments.tmx.com.au>, leo@adi.com.au
> (Leo Possajennikov) wrote:
> 
> > If I know the ID of SCSI device (more exactly: bus, ID, LUN) how I can
> > know has this device startup volume or not?
> 
> Leo,
> 
> As far as I know, if it has a valid system file & neccessary system stuff,
> it can be a boot (startup) volume.  The one selected in the "Startup Disk"
> control panel is the current startup volume.
> 
> 

There would appear to be more to it than that. Well, at least FWB toolkit
would indicate so.  It formats disks and will flag a disk as bootable if
the user requests.  Does anyone know how to determine whether a partition
is flagged as bootable or not?  And is that truly required?  (or is FWB
just yanking our chains?)

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Pascal Programmer on Macintosh and Open VMS

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