Re: DOES TOS 1.4 DO THIS?

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From: hafer Udo Hafermann
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1989 12:30

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apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:

>TOS has always marked bad sectors when formatting, in exactly the same
>way that MS-DOS does. ...

What?  TOS puts an End-of-chain marker in the appropriate FAT entries,
whereas MSDos uses special defective-cluster markers.  (Or has that
changed in version 1.4?)

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