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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> <RALPH.91May14111833@orion.laas.fr>
Date: Tue, 14 May 1991 12:01:42 GMT
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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.

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