Re: external drive

[DON.HANSON@rook.wa.com (don hanson)]

 On 01-11-95 DALLOFF@FREENET.COLUMBUS. wrote to ALL...

 > What operating system are you using?  If you are trying to get a
 > directory
 > and you are getting an I/O error somehow identified as TK$11/SC$0,
 > then it
 > sounds like you are using a variation of DOS 3.3...in ProDOs, there is
 > no
 > such thing as a sector (ProDOS uses blocks, which on 5.25" disks are
 > equivalent to two DOS 3.3 sectors), and I don't think the directory is
 > stored on Track 17 ($11).

Doesn't matter what operating system you are in.  Prodos also assumes you have
a dos 3.3 disk in the drive, if it cannot read the disk (At lease copy ][+
and other utilities I have used over the years).  It reports errors as if
it was a dos 3.3 disk no matter what it is, if it cannot read it as either
prodos or dos 3.3.  (This whole comment applies to various common utilities.
I don't remember if I have ever used the internal cat command from basic in
this situation).
-don


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