gfs@drutx.UUCP (SkinnerGF) (03/13/85)
... I own an Atari 800 and whenever a disk will not format I erase it with a bulk tape eraser. This almost always allows the disk to be formatted on the next try. I have had to throw away only 1 disk of the about 200 that I own. The Atari disk drive uses soft sectoring and bulk erasing does not seem to bother it.