Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!lll-winken!uunet!yale!root From: root@yale.UUCP (Celray Stalk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: 2K of disk space lost? Message-ID: <54471@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 22 Mar 89 16:20:49 GMT References: <8903211617.AA27122@uk.ac.ucl.sm.uxm> Reply-To: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 18 In article <8903211617.AA27122@uk.ac.ucl.sm.uxm> andrew@uxm.sm.ucl.ac.UK (Andrew Dawson) writes: >Is this a TOS bug, or have I missed something? Anyone got any ideas? Yes, this is a known TOS bug. The last two clusters of every disk remain unused. Apparently they can be read if a file happens to be there, but when looking for free space to write a file, TOS doesn't know of their existence. Allan Pratt posted a note awhile back giving an improbable scenario in which problems might be caused if a user of an old TOS tried to write to a nearly full disk that had been created by a fixed TOS. Thus, last I heard, Atari had decided *not* to fix the problem in TOS 1.4. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: | | Bitnet: | | UUCP: | ==================================================