What is the checksum used for the Amiga's track & sector information

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From: Kevin Oster
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 1988 01:17

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   This is a very technical question. I am going to the disk hardware directly
(Thanks for all the help on getting that going...It was the disk.resource that
solved it.) Anyway, I want to write a format routine and I don't know enough
about the checksum.
   The RKM volume 2 tells a little about the format. It says there are two
32 bit checksums, one for the header information and one for the data area.
How do I compute them? These checksums are on the raw data after MFM decoding,
even lower level than trackdisk. Also is there anything special about the
$4489 matchword? Couldn't it be found by chance in a sector's data area?
($4489 is the MFM encoded version of $A1)

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From: koster@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin Oster)
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Subject: What is the checksum used for the Amiga's track & sector information
Keywords: Checksum, Disk, Sector
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