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Re: Focus Drive //e woes



Michael J. Mahon wrote:
William Katz wrote:

Okay, I can not believe it!!!!
After attaching the drive (ibm dha-2270) to my PC, it recognized it in the bios, and I booted into Windows XP. I downloaded CiderPress v2.4.5 and OMG!! It recognized the physical drive as being a FocusDrive and read in all 6 Focus partitions! Turns out I don't have any data on partitions 3, 4, 5, or 6.. but still, I can retrieve all the data from the drive!!

As I thought further about this, I realized that if CiderPress can
make sense of the drive, then there's a pretty good chance that the
partition table is *almost* correct, but not "correct enough" to
satisfy the Focus card.

This strongly argues for just a couple of "signature" bytes being
wrong.

Is the Focus partition table format online anywhere?

-michael

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