2006/3/9, Paul de Weerd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> This signature is represented (in binary) as 0b1010101001010101. The
> alternating bit pattern was thought to be a protection against certain
> failures (drive or controller).
>
> Of course, this is an i386ism (also present on amd64 I believe). Lots
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 02:44:10PM +0100, Stefan Drexleri wrote:
| Hi,
|
| when installing OpenBSD fdisk utility does extra show selected disk's MBR
| signature 0xAA55.
|
| Why does it do? Do more MBR signatures exist? Or is this only for
| verification of disk's mbr health?
The 0xAA55 signature i
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