GILLMANN%USC-ISIB@sri-unix.UUCP (12/07/83)
From: Dick Gillmann <GILLMANN@USC-ISIB> I was having trouble with the FORMAT program and discovered (with help from Brackenridge & Henderson) that it has a terrible bug in it that makes it depend on where it loads in memory for proper operation. In other words if you have device drivers and programs that remain resident, they may shift the starting point for the FORMAT program so that it won't work right. This has something to do with crossing 64K boundaries. I experimented with a varying the load point and doing a FORMAT A:/B/1 and found that at some positions I got a 160K disk, at others a 179K disk and at still others I got a bad track 0 error -- all with the same diskette. Does anyone have a properly written FORMAT program? -------