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| Short: | The Amiga filesystem explained. v1.07 |  
| Author: | http://come.to/adflib |  
| Uploader: | laurent clevy alcatel fr |  
| Type: | docs/misc |  
| Version: | 1.07 |  
| Architecture: | generic |  
| Date: | 1999-05-28 |  
 | Requires: | an HTTP brower |  
 | Replaces: | docs/misc/afs_info.txt |  
| Download: | docs/misc/ADFfaq.lha - View contents |  | Readme: | docs/misc/ADFfaq.readme |  
| Downloads: | 2660 |   
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Table of contents
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0. Changes
1. Introduction
   * 1.1 Disclaimer and Copyright
   * 1.2 Feedback, updates
   * 1.3 Conventions
   * 1.4 Acknowledgements
2. How bytes are physically read from and written to a disk ?
   * 2.1 What is MFM encoding/decoding ?
   * 2.2 What is the MFM track format ?
   * 2.3 What is the MFM sector format ?
   * 2.4 How to decode MFM data ?
3. What is the Amiga floppy disk geometry ?
4. What is the logical organisation of an Amiga volume ?
   * 4.1 What is a Bootblock ?
   * 4.2 What is a Rootblock ?
        o 4.2.1 How to find the first sector of an entry ?
        o 4.2.2 How to list directory entries ?
        o 4.2.3 How to compute the checksum ?
   * 4.3 How is the free/used blocks list managed ?
   * 4.4 How are files stored ?
   * 4.5 How are directories stored ?
   * 4.6 How are links implemented in AmigaDos ?
        o 4.6.1 Hard links
        o 4.6.2 Soft links
   * 4.7 How are the blocks associated with the dircache mode ?
5. How does a blank disk look like ?
   * 5.1 A minimal blank floppy disk
   * 5.2 A 'Bootable' floppy disk
   * 5.3 A directory cache mode floppy disk
   * 5.4 International mode
6. The structure of a hard disks ?
   * 6.1 What is the Rigid Disk Block ?
   * 6.2 How bad blocks are managed ?
   * 6.3 How are stored partitions ?
   * 6.4 What are FSHD blocks ?
   * 6.5 What are LSEG blocks ?
7. The Hard file : a big floppy dump file
8. Advanced information
9. References
10. C Routines : the ADF Library
11. Other Amiga file systems
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