Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!dclemans From: dclemans@mntgfx.MENTOR.COM (Dave Clemans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Lost disk sectors Message-ID: <794@dclemans.mntgfx.MENTOR.COM> Date: Thu, 9-Jul-87 16:46:03 EDT Article-I.D.: dclemans.794 Posted: Thu Jul 9 16:46:03 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 07:30:38 EDT References: <8707071803.AA02575@yale-eli.arpa> <1885@oliveb.UUCP> Organization: Mentor Graphics, Beaverton OR Lines: 9 Summary: why 2 missing sectors From what I've understood, the two missing sectors in GEMDOS disk partitions are a result of a mistake made by whoever at Digital Research implemented GEMDOS. MS-DOS reserves the first two entries in the FAT, as does GEMDOS. However, MS-DOS adjusts the FAT table size to account for the reserved entries (i.e. increases its size by two). GEMDOS doesn't do this; thus the last two clusters get lost. dgc