[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: Recognizing DOS 3.3 disks on IIGS.
- Subject: Re: Recognizing DOS 3.3 disks on IIGS.
- From: willie@singapore.com (Willie Yeo)
- Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2002 11:57:11 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.net.au)
- References: <3D2B7877.63E5E044@usa.net>
- User-agent: NewsWatcher-X 2.2.3b1
- Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.sys.apple2:21155
In article <3D2B7877.63E5E044@usa.net>, a2forever@usa.net wrote:
> The computer seems unable to recognise Dos 3.3, whenever inserted into
> the 5.25" disk drive. When System 6.0 is loaded from the Hard Drive, it
> keeps wanting to reformat the disk to ProDOS or similar format. While
> restarting the computer and attempting to bootup, with PR#6, it gives
> read/write errors as if the disk is corrupt. I have connected the disk
> drive to my Apple IIe and booted up with the same disk without any
> problems. What's wrong? Is it set for Fast mode, rather than Slow? How
> do I switch between them?
Dirty drive head or the drive sounds like it is faulty.