ID-ing a PC backup format
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Wed Nov 4 19:35:51 CST 2015
I've got a set of mystery 5.25" DD floppies that appear to be a backup
of some sort. 10 x 512 byte sectors per track, 40 cylinders,
double-sided. Normal sector IDs (Side 0: 0/ Side 1: 1), 1-10.
No, it's not FASTBACK nor does it appear to be Central Point's PC
Backup. The start of the first sector of the first floppy looks like this:
000000 50 43 42 41 43 4B 55 50-2E 01 00 50 43 42 00 06
000010 04 00 69 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
000020 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 01 01 01 01
000040 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01-01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
000050 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01-01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
000060 01 01 01 01 01 5A 5A 5A-5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A
000070 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A-5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A
000080 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 5A-5A 5A 5A 5A 5A 52 13 C5
000090 9A 01 00 1E 00 01 00 54-55 52 42 4F 43 5C 00 00
Note that it starts off with 'PCBACKUP'. This doesn't seem to match
anything in my library. Anyone got any ideas.
Oh yeah, this would be circa 1989 or so.
--Chuck
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