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Re: MS-DOS FST!
None of the below - which is why it won't work. :-)
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On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 13:14:43 -0300, Tony Cianfaglione
> <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
>
> >I have the MS-DOS FST but it doesn't do much.
> >
> >I inserted a formatted 720k MS-DOS disk into the GS and it refused to
> >recognize it. I tried those MUG utilities, did a format that read
> >'MS-DOS' by the GS finder but inserting it into the PC, the PC refused to
> >recognize it.
>
> This might be a silly question but do you have a 3.5" drive connected
> to your IIgs that is capable of handling MFM encoding? The standard
> Apple II 3.5" drives only do GCR encoding. You need a SuperDrive with
> SuperDrive controller, a standard PC 3.5" drive with a BlueDisk
> controller, a Floptical with a SCSI controller or a PCTransporter with
> a 3.5" TransDrive (or Apple 3.5" Drive but apparently this isn't very
> reliable) to be able to use MS-DOS formatted disks.
>
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