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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DOES TOS 1.4 DO THIS?
Message-ID: <1625@atari.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 16:31:45 GMT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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UUCJEFF@ECNCDC.BITNET writes:

>One thing there seemed to be no mention of, while TOS 1.4 formats disks
>100% compatible with MS DOS, does it also flag bad sectors so you can use
>a disk with bad sectors (as in MS-DOS)?
>i.e. in format, file copy, and disk writes.

TOS has always marked bad sectors when formatting, in exactly the same
way that MS-DOS does.  No other operation marks bad sectors, under
either TOS or MS-DOS, except perhaps a utliity which does that
explicitly.

This is a good time for the reminder that TOS 1.4's desktop format
operation is MS-DOS compatible, but other programs which format disks
are not necessarily compatible.

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