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Article #27488Re: Lost disk sectors
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Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1987 15:51
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1987 15:51
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in article <8707071803.AA02575@yale-eli.arpa>, fischer-michael@YALE.ARPA (Michael Fischer) says:
> I wrote a little program to display the FAT (File Allocation Table)
> on a disk that appeared to be completely full and was surprised
> to see the last two clusters (= 4 sectors) free. Looking at the
> data itself confirmed that they were unused. Doing a little
> ...
> Has anybody else noticed this before? Is it a TOS bug? If so,
> has it been fixed in the newer ROMs?
>
> --Mike Fischer <fischer@yale.arpa>
I've sort of noticed this, in the sense that when a disk is formatted under
MS-DOS it gives more space available (~361,000 bytes) than a TOS disk which
is 'supposedly' formatted in a compatible way. Now why this is done, I
don't know, but imagine it would be explained in the Abacus book about ST
drives and disks.
Anyone else have a clue?
--
Dean Brunette {ucbvax,etc.}!hplabs!oliveb!olivej!dragon
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!ames!oliveb!dragon From: dragon@oliveb.UUCP (Give me a quarter or I'll touch you) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Lost disk sectors Message-ID: <1885@oliveb.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Jul-87 11:51:05 EDT Article-I.D.: oliveb.1885 Posted: Wed Jul 8 11:51:05 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Jul-87 06:48:44 EDT References: <8707071803.AA02575@yale-eli.arpa> Distribution: world Organization: Dragon Technology, Inc. San Francisco, USA Lines: 26