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Quick - Safe sectors
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:51 pm
by 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?
Re:Quick - Safe sectors
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:03 pm
by Candy
seph wrote:
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
Re:Quick - Safe sectors
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 3:08 pm
by seph
Ok.
So how do I mark sectors as "bad"?
Re:Quick - Safe sectors
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2005 5:10 pm
by 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.