Re: MS-DOS FST and Zip disks question

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <nugundamE5BJLp.ICo@netcom.com>,
Joseph Lee <nugundam@netcom.com> wrote:
>Is it possible to read ms-dos partitions on zip disks?  I doesn't seem to
>work (fine for HFS) but I can't figure out why it doesn't work for ms-dos
>partitions.  Does it have to be a 1.44 disk for the FST to work?

   Apparently the partition table is stored differently between
Apples/PCs.  [Does your SCSI card even recognize the volume by name?
That's a good indication of whether it's viewable]. However, Peter
Watson's MSDOS utilities (2.30 is the latest version) can read PC
formatted Zip disks. 

Nathan Mates

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