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Article #2638Re: DOES TOS 1.4 DO THIS?
From: Allan Pratt
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1989 16:31
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1989 16:31
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UUCJEFF@ECNCDC.BITNET writes: >One thing there seemed to be no mention of, while TOS 1.4 formats disks >100% compatible with MS DOS, does it also flag bad sectors so you can use >a disk with bad sectors (as in MS-DOS)? >i.e. in format, file copy, and disk writes. TOS has always marked bad sectors when formatting, in exactly the same way that MS-DOS does. No other operation marks bad sectors, under either TOS or MS-DOS, except perhaps a utliity which does that explicitly. This is a good time for the reminder that TOS 1.4's desktop format operation is MS-DOS compatible, but other programs which format disks are not necessarily compatible. ============================================ Opinions expressed above do not necessarily -- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp. reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else. ...ames!atari!apratt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!bionet!apple!sun-barr!newstop!sun!imagen!atari!apratt From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: DOES TOS 1.4 DO THIS? Message-ID: <1625@atari.UUCP> Date: 26 Jul 89 16:31:45 GMT References: <8907260006.AA28980@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 19