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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1986 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)stand.t     1.4 (Berkeley) 4/11/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .NH
        !             8: Bootstrap and standalone utilities
        !             9: .PP
        !            10: The standalone routines in \fB/sys/stand\fP and \fB/sys/mdec\fP
        !            11: have received some work.
        !            12: The bootstrap code is now capable of booting from drives other than drive 0.
        !            13: The device type passed from level to level during the bootstrap operation
        !            14: now encodes the device type, partition number, unit number, and MASSBUS
        !            15: or UNIBUS adaptor number (one byte for each field,
        !            16: from least significant to most significant).
        !            17: The bootstrap is much faster, as the standalone \fIread\fP operation
        !            18: uses raw I/O when possible.
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: The formatter has been much improved.
        !            21: It deals with skip-sector devices correctly; the previous version
        !            22: tested for skip-sector capability incorrectly, and thus never dealt with it.
        !            23: The formatter is capable of formatting sections of the disk, track by track,
        !            24: and can run a variable number of passes.
        !            25: The error retry logic in the standalone disk drivers was corrected
        !            26: and parameterized so that the formatter may disable most corrections.

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