Suspected GEMDOS bug or where did the disk sectors go?

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From: Bob Deskin
Date: Fri, 06 May 1988 13:02

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A week ago I posted a question about what happens to 2K when formatting a
floppy disk. That is, formatting a single sided disk gives you 349K whereas
the calculation 80 tracks times 9 sectors (720) less 1 boot sector, 2 FATs at
5 sectors each, and a directory of 7 sectors (18) leaves 702 sectors or 
351K. I have since been told that this is an old GEMDOS bug where GEMDOS 
"looses" 2K or 4 sectors. It explains why most RAM disks I have provide 2K
less than what's asked for. Can anyone confirm this bug (Atari???) and is it
fixed in the new ROMs. Thanks in advance.

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Bob Deskin		decvax!utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!bdeskin
Cognos Incorporated	P.O. Box 9707
(613) 738-1440          3755 Riverside Dr. 
			Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA, K1G 3Z4

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From: bdeskin@cognos.uucp (Bob Deskin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Suspected GEMDOS bug or where did the disk sectors go?
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Date: 6 May 88 13:02:20 GMT
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Posted: Fri May  6 09:02:20 1988
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