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

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <5e7193b4.0409291144.64622f44@posting.google.com>,
 a2@wilserv.com (Willi Kusche) wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message 
> news:<nospam-695228.23563728092004@news-server.woh.rr.com>...
> > I recently examined an 800 K ProDOS disk image that ProDOS 2.0.3 
> > could see but GS/OS 6.0.1 couldn't. It turned out to be a raw 
> > DOS-order image (and _not_ a .2mg image). Might this be the problem?
> 
>     Disk image?  The problem I'm having with the 3.5 inch disk volume
> is with a real disk in a real IIgs.  When that real IIgs is running
> ProDOS, the disk volume is recognized.  When the real IIgs is running
> GS/OS, the disk volume is not recognized.  I fail to see what a disk
> image could have to do with the problem.
> 
> Willi

Indeed, this would be irrelevant on a real disk. I was just struck 
by the resemblance. Clearly, GS/OS is pickier that ProDOS 8.

(BTW, at least one utility on the emulator emulator decided the 
image was a CP/M disk! :-)

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