Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!dgp.toronto.edu!juancho From: juancho@dgp.toronto.edu (John Buchanan) Subject: Re: Suspected GEMDOS bug or where did the disk sectors go? Message-ID: <8805121345.AA14452@champlain.dgp.toronto.edu> Organization: University of Toronto, CSRI References: <2936@cognos.UUCP> <1058@atari.UUCP> Date: Thu, 12 May 88 08:25:00 EDT In article <1058@atari.UUCP> good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good) writes: >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 I for one would be pleased to reformat all my disks if you fix this. I would not be to concerned about compatibility, rather more about correctness. After all if we were concerned with compatibility we would still be working with cards on a IBM machine. (WHat a THOUght) >----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Roy J. Good Keep up the good work. ===================================================================== | Typical conversation on comp.[atari|amiga|mac].* | ===================================================================== My watch is better than yours. It has multitasking, windows and plays Old macdonald has a farm. I will not listen to reason, of course your watch is not as good as mine, in fact you are silly for having bought it. Sell it and buy my kind. o / ====X================================================================ o \ John W. Buchanan Dynamic Graphics Project Computer Systems Research Institute (416) 978-6619 University of Toronto juancho@dgp.toronto.edu juancho@toronto.CSNET {allegra,cornell,decvax,ihnp4,linus,utzoo}!utdgp!juancho