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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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