Re: Creating a CD that is usable on a IIgs

["ict@ccess" <gids.rs@sasktel.net>]

On Nov 7, 5:39 pm, Linards Ticmanis <ticma...@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 02:45 AM, Sam Latella wrote:
>
> > Okay, how about the MSDOS.FST on the IIgs... Wouldn't I be able to create a
> > cd on the Windoze machine that is dos based and copy the IIgs files that are
> > in a zip format onto the cd... Then bring it over to the IIgs?  I know the
> > programs  won't run, but its more for the purposes of an archive format and
> > being able to transfer larger data between two different machines.
>
> Unfortunately, standard CD-ROMs in the Microsoft world do not, and never
> did, use a DOS FAT file system; they use ISO-9660 instead. That's why
> you needed to waste so much RAM for that MSCDEX driver when using
> CD-ROMs under DOS. So I doubt there are any tools specifically for
> creating MSDOS file system based CDs.
>
> What you could maybe do is create an image of a DOS hard disk partition
> and burn that image directly to a CD, but I don't know if any computer
> would be able to handle such a CD directly.
>
> --
> Linards Ticmanis

I tested two DOS formatted images in my "Bernie" emulator.  One
formated to 10 MB and one to 40 MB.  It looks like that the MSDOS.fst
only recognizes up to 10 MB of a DOS disk.  The 40 MB disk would not
mount.  So copying a 660 MB image formatted to DOS and copied to a cd
will not be recognized by GSOS either.

Can any one else confirm this?