RE: Stupid Questions 102

[bpvh@primenet.com (Bradley P. Von Haden)]

dturner@brando.ece.utexas.edu wrote:

>On 6 Jan 1996, Cold Fusion wrote:
>>What do you need to do to be able to read MSDOS disks in GSOS? I
>>copied the MSDOS FST from the Disk Tools disk to the FST folder,
>>but the system tells me the floppies are unreadable (trying ones
>>formatted at 720K, figuring the drive couldn't handle 1.44's).
>>Hmm!
>  You must have the Apple SuperDrive (and controller card) to be
>able to read MS-DOS disks.

There are at least two other ways:

    1) a SCSI floptical drive on a SCSI chain

    2) a MS-Dos floppy drive attached to a Blue Disk card..

Normal Apple IIgs disk drives can not read MS-DOS disks - something
to do with the way information is written onto the disk that is
hardware (?) incompatible.

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