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In article <1058@atari.UUCP> good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes:
>In article <2936@cognos.UUCP>, bdeskin@cognos.uucp (Bob Deskin) writes:
>> A week ago I posted a question about what happens to 2K when formatting a
>> floppy disk. [...deleted...]
>> I have since been told that this is an old GEMDOS bug where GEMDOS 
>> "loses" 2K or 4 sectors. [...deleted...]
>> Can anyone confirm this bug (Atari???) and is it fixed in the new ROMs. 
>
>It is an old GEMDOS problem, and it was fixed in an interim version of the
>forthcoming ROMs. However, the fix has been backed out due to potentially
>serious loss of data due to incompatibility problems when disks with the
	I for one would be pleased to reformat all my disks if you fix this.
I would not be to concerned about compatibility, rather more about 
correctness.  After all if we were concerned with compatibility we would 
still  be working with cards on a IBM machine.  (WHat a THOUght)

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>Roy J. Good
	Keep up the good work.



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