[Simh] Write sector headers to disk

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2019-06-25 10:32, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> Mark Pizzolato wrote:
>> Is the data that is written in the headers by SALV predictable?
> 
> It writes the sensible sector geometry information, so that's not a
> problem.  It also writes the drive serial number to the first key field,
> and a user-specified pack number to the second key field.  The pack
> number is entered before the pack is formatted.

So essentially DEC144 format packs. Sounds good. Seems there is nothing 
except predictable information in the headers, so that part can actually 
be ignored. The operation just should write the normal data part as any 
other write, and be happy, and I believe things would be good.

   Johnny

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