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Interesting they think it was written to after the dent. I'd think it'd error during write.
by joshg253 5y ago
Interesting they think it was written to after the dent. I'd think it'd error during write.
- scarybeast 5y agoThe floppy disc controller doesn't have a way of knowing if the write worked or not. There are some corner cases here, like the drive can signal a fault line if it's on fire, but if there's simply a dodgy patch of disc surface, nothing will be apparent during the write. So, the operating system could verify the write by reading it back, but I don't think the BBC Micro disc ROMs typically did that for file writes -- only for formats.