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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
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Posted: Wed Jul  8 11:51:05 1987
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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 

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?


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