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From: hafer (Udo Hafermann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DOES TOS 1.4 DO THIS?
Message-ID: <1989Jul30.123010.1429@tubsibr.uucp>
Date: 30 Jul 89 12:30:10 GMT
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apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:

>TOS has always marked bad sectors when formatting, in exactly the same
>way that MS-DOS does. ...

What?  TOS puts an End-of-chain marker in the appropriate FAT entries,
whereas MSDos uses special defective-cluster markers.  (Or has that
changed in version 1.4?)