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.

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Roy J. Good
Product Development, Atari Corporation

Views expressed are my own. Atari may agree or disagree; they have the right.
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