Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!math.fu-berlin.de!fauern!faui43.informatik.uni-erlangen.de!csbrod From: csbrod@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod) Subject: Re: Bad Sector on Formatting (was Re: Tos 1.4 Bugs) Message-ID: <1991May14.120142.7994@informatik.uni-erlangen.de> Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany References: <1991May10.130926.28727@qut.edu.au> <1991May10.170436.7521@ecst.csuchico.edu> <5630@wucc.waseda.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 12:01:42 GMT Lines: 17 ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) writes: >It is true, other than real cheapo's, the defective floppy disk can be >returned to the dealer. (Do you all save all your receipts? :-) >Still, which formatters on the Atari do at least verify the formatted >disk? Especially, MS-DOS compatible formatters; you get 4 extra >sectors for free! Hyperformat and PumpUp (two formatters written by yours truly) verify and mark bad spots. The Desktop formatter does this, too. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de Claus Brod@wue.maus.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------