On Montag 15 Juni 2009, ruud.baltissen@apg.nl wrote:
> Hallo Marko,
>
> > The ID bytes in the low-level format, in the disk block
> > headers outside the 256-byte payload, are completely different
> > from the disk directory header that is displayed in the
> > directory listing.
>
> No. The ID given in 'N:xxxxxx,ID' is indeed the ID displayed in the
> directory header but is also used for the ID in the block headers.
> But you reduced my concern about different ID's anyway. Which means I
> can use the same floppy over and over again W/O formatting. But knowing
> that the 1541 uses the ID in the header to identify a disk, I have to
> initialise the disk after every copy to refresh the BAM in memory.

one thing you should keep in mind is though, that a bunch of cracks exist that 
didnt remove the id check and so need the disk formatted with whatever is in 
the directory (many eaglesoft cracks for example).


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