Quick - Safe sectors

[seph]

Just to make sure.
If you load something into sector 1 of a floppy disk, it won't mess up the filesystem, right?
Will the second FAT be loaded automatically or do I have to do something about it?

[Candy]

Just to make sure.
If you load something into sector 1 of a floppy disk, it won't mess up the filesystem, right?
Will the second FAT be loaded automatically or do I have to do something about it?

Try marking a few as bad in the FAT and use them. Or, give up windows compatibility

[seph]

Ok.
So how do I mark sectors as "bad"?

[Candy]

By reading the FAT file system specification and doing what is said there to mark one bad.


Or, put simple, by writing the value 0xFF8 in the FAT.