Re: GS/OS won't recognize a ProDOS 8 3.5 inch disk

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Willi Kusche wrote:

>Andy McFadden <fadden@fadden.com> wrote in message
>news:<pLf6d.15442$54.236074@typhoon.sonic.net>...
>> Best guess: it's damaged in some way that P8 doesn't care about but GS/OS
>> does.
>
>    Guess again.  The volume verifies OK using Apple II System
>Utilities Version 3.1.  Mr. Fixit, a Glen Bredon disk repair program,
>says "There are 1 unused blocks marked used.".  That doesn't sound
>like somthing sufficiently serious to cause GS/OS to not recognize the
>volume.

Hmmm.  Could having only 1 free block be the problem?  I note
that GSOS wants to write a "DESKTOP" or something on every
disk it sees.

-michael

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