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Re: Superdrive controller + superdrive = read MSDOS? Doesn't work for me



Tim Haynes wrote:

I recently bought a superdrive controller for my IIgs.  I modified a drive
to take the Superdrive mechanism from a Mac IIsi (knew that thing would be
good for something someday... ;) and updated my GSOS 6.0.1 with the Apple
3.5 Disk installer so that it could format 1.44 meg disks.  So far, so good!
Works fine with 1.44 meg PRODOS disks.  I then installed the MSDOS FST and
rebooted.  I checked the FSTs folder and the MSDOS one is there.  But when I
put in a formatted MSDOS disk, nothing happens.  The disk light comes on
momentarily, but no disk shows up on the desktop and no message is
displayed.

Am I doing something wrong...?


I can't see that you're doing anything wrong but there is a problem
there. If you're running GS/OS, then when you insert a disk into the floppy drive one of two things should happen. Either the disk should be 
mounted on the desktop or if GS/OS doesn't recognize the format you
should get the message asking if you want to initialize it or eject it.

I'd tend to be suspicious about that floppy drive

Wayne