Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!good From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Suspected GEMDOS bug or where did the disk sectors go? Message-ID: <1058@atari.UUCP> Date: 9 May 88 17:09:28 GMT References: <2936@cognos.UUCP> Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA Lines: 20 Summary: Missing 2K disk space In article <2936@cognos.UUCP>, bdeskin@cognos.uucp (Bob Deskin) writes: > A week ago I posted a question about what happens to 2K when formatting a > floppy disk. [...deleted...] > I have since been told that this is an old GEMDOS bug where GEMDOS > "loses" 2K or 4 sectors. [...deleted...] > Can anyone confirm this bug (Atari???) and is it fixed in the new ROMs. It is an old GEMDOS problem, and it was fixed in an interim version of the forthcoming ROMs. However, the fix has been backed out due to potentially serious loss of data due to incompatibility problems when disks with the extra 2K get used on systems with old ROMs. The Release Notes will have a full explanation. The unused space amounts to a VERY small percentage of available disk space, even on the lowest capacity floppy drive. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Roy J. Good Product Development, Atari Corporation Views expressed are my own. Atari may agree or disagree; they have the right. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------