inventing new disk formats

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From: Allan Adler
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 21:20

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I'm not sure whether this is the right place for this, but here goes.
Suggestions for other groups are welcome.

I'm working with an 80386 MSDOS system with an AMI bios. I am interested
in learning how to do the following:
(1) invent a new format for a floppy disk or hard disk (but I'll start with
    a floppy :-) ).
(2) write the information on the floppy that tells the motherboard how to
    boot from it. It would be booting antoher operating system, that
     I would also have to write. I know how to physically write everything
    on the floppy: one just uses rawrite. But I don't know WHAT to write.


Can someone suggest how to learn this, e.g. books that explain it in
words of one syllable, programs that help one do it, etc.?

Allan Adler
ara@altdorf.ai.mit.edu

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