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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 2K of disk space lost?
Message-ID: <2228@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 23 Mar 89 08:48:43 GMT
References: <8903211617.AA27122@uk.ac.ucl.sm.uxm>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <8903211617.AA27122@uk.ac.ucl.sm.uxm> andrew@uxm.sm.ucl.ac.UK (Andrew Dawson) writes:
>... 728064 bytes. However, after formatting is complete (assuming no bad
>sectors), I am told that the disk has 726016 bytes free. 2K is
>unaccounted for.
...
>Is this a TOS bug, or have I missed something? Anyone got any ideas?

Yes, it is a bug. Atari won't fix it because of the compatibility problems
with old systems that would still have it. I still wish that Atari would fix
it though. I would also like to see the desktop diskcopy function copy disks
with 10 sectors per track.

My disk formatter (AFMT) uses 3 SPF on double sided disk and 2 SPF on single
sided. At 80 tracks and 10 sectors per track that gives 809984 bytes free.

>Andrew Dawson
>School Of Medicine Computer Unit
>University College London


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