Re: Cannot write to 5.25" disks from 6.0.1 Finder

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <20050219230655629+1300@News.Individual.NET>,
 Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz> wrote:

>  There was a problem with GS-ShrinkIt where it 
> could only read or write 5.25" disk archives if they were in ProDOS 
> format. Non-ProDOS disk archives were fine on 3.5" disks. Apparently it 
> was a bug in the OS, but I don't know if it was ever fixed. The 
> workaround was to use the 8-bit version of ShrinkIt for non-ProDOS 5.25" 
> disk archives.

This is because the GS/OS 5.25 driver is not capable of writing (and 
maybe not reading) the volume number.  It's not important on ProDOS 
disks, but can be very important when it comes to DOS 3.3.

Greg B.

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