Re: GS/PC?

[erik@hypermall.com (Erik Kloeppel)]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950902230659.5398A-100000@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>,
Enigma <llay@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> wrote:

>Colin Williamson <colin.williamson@mdtnbbs.com> wrote:
>> If I gave a PC owner one of my SCSI drives, had him format it as an MS DOS
>> drive, copied a bunch of stuff to it, then gave it back to me, could
>> I hook it up to my IIgs and read it with the MS/DOS FST?
>
>Many people had responded "yes" to this question; while I would suggest 
>the answer "no." I haven't had the need to do this either myself--so I 
>haven't done it either. But I would say, it all depends on whether 
>RamFast SCSI or Apple H.S. SCSI recognize the DOS partition. While the 
>MSDOS.FST might be able to read the DOS disk, if the SCSI card doesn't 
>recognize the partition, it doesn't matter whether MSDOS.FST can read it 
>or not. :-)

the cards don't give a hoot what's on the drive - al lthey do is pass
informaion back and forth the the drivers and FSTs.  The drivers and FSTs
have to do the recognising and translating of the data structure

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