[comp.sys.atari.st] TOS and bad sector

TK0GRM1@NIU.BITNET (Gordon Meyer) (08/08/89)

RE: TOS marking bad sectors.

Over the past three years I've had a number of floppies with
bad sectors.  In all of the cases TOS reported less than the
expected number of free space after a desktop format.  While
it's true that it didn't say "XXX BAD SECTORS FOUND" the
<358K available was a big tipoff.  I'm not a programmer, but
common sense tells me that TOS *did* know about the bad
sectors.
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