Re: 2K of disk space lost?

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From: Celray Stalk
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 1989 16:20

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In article <8903211617.AA27122@uk.ac.ucl.sm.uxm> andrew@uxm.sm.ucl.ac.UK (Andrew Dawson)
writes:
>Is this a TOS bug, or have I missed something? Anyone got any ideas?

Yes, this is a known TOS bug.  The last two clusters of every disk
remain unused.  Apparently they can be read if a file happens to be
there, but when looking for free space to write a file, TOS doesn't
know of their existence.  Allan Pratt posted a note awhile back giving
an improbable scenario in which problems might be caused if a user of
an old TOS tried to write to a nearly full disk that had been created
by a fixed TOS.  Thus, last I heard, Atari had decided *not* to fix the
problem in TOS 1.4.
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Subject: Re: 2K of disk space lost?
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