Problems Detected with System 6

[mark@pokey.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Manning)]

I've noticed two problems that I thought I'd bring to the attention
of the //gs people at Apple.

First, let me tell you about my system so you can set one up like it.
I have an Apple //gs with ROM 01.  The system has 4megs of memory on
an AE GS Ram card.  I also have the Apple SCSI interface card plugged
into an Apple 20meg hard drive (SCSI).  There is an Apple 800k 3.5"
floppy drive attached to the system, a color monitor (Apple), and the
dinky keyboard (not the expanded).

The two problems are:

1. I can not format an HFS volume.  The system takes a dump into the
   monitor when I try.

2. I can read an HFS volume.  However, twice now I have had the
   diskettes, which I've placed into the 800k drive on the Apple
   //gs, go bad on me.  The catalog track on the HFS drive (track
   16 [$10]) seems to be corrupted.  I do not remember if I had
   written to the diskette or if I just read it.  I think that
   what happened was that when I closed the folder the //gs rewrote
   the window information back out to the disk.  It is this writing
   that I believe might be causing the problem.

Let me know.  Thanks.