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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: DOES TOS 1.4 DO THIS?
Message-ID: <2924@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Jul 89 09:55:39 GMT
References: <8907260006.AA28980@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> <1625@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
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In article <1625@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) 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.

I always used to wish that the desktop formatter would allow you to format
a bad disk completely (and markbad) so that a severely damaged disk could
still be used. Obviously I'd only want this in an emergency and I wouldn't
try formatting a disk that looked like a roller coaster.
I actually boot up the HD with a damaged disk which I use for nothing else.

>============================================
>Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
>reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt

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