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From: ekrimen@ecst.csuchico.edu (Ed Krimen)
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Subject: Re: Tos 1.4 Bugs
Message-ID: <1991May10.170436.7521@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 10 May 91 17:04:36 GMT
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In article <1991May10.130926.28727@qut.edu.au> lunnon@qut.edu.au writes:
>Yet another bug in TOS 1.4
>
>
>	It has been brought to my attention that the new desktop formatter
>in TOS 1.4 does not mark bad blocks correctly according to the IBM media. 
>It seems that TOS gets the nybbles wrong. (you know that wierd 12 bit
>fat they have), anyone else have experience with this one. While I'm
>on the subject, most formatters I have don't cope well with bad sectors,
>does anyone know of one that does do bad sector mapping properly ???
>

The old TOS doesn't map the bad sectors either.  Actually, I heard that
it does recognize the bad sectors, but it doesn't actually 'save the
bad sector configuration' to disk; so, it knows they're there, but
doesn't permanently write them.  Anyway, I wonder if this is fixed in
TOS >1.4.

DC Format 3.02 does good bad sector mapping.

I asked Dan Wilga about adding a bad sector mapping feature to NeoDesk's
formatter, and he told me just to throw out the disk. :^)

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