Reading PC disks

[jefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

Daniel Webster <dwebster@monmouth.com> wrote:

>For the longest time I was happily reading my 1.44 MS-DOS formatted disks 
>with my GS using the HD floppy controller and my AE HD drives, with the 
>Sys 6.01 translator.  So someone at work gets the brilliant idea to 
>'upgrade' to Win95, and now my GS can't see my disks.  Not just the new 
>ones that I format with Win 95, but even older ones, once Win95 has 
>'seen' them.  The GS seems to look at the floppy, but it does not appear 
>on the desktop.  It does not say it can't read the disk, it just tries to 
>read it and then the access light goes out, end of story.  The disk has 
>to be manually ejected.   Win95 seems to change something on the disk, I 
>guess to allow the extended file names to be written or something. 

Apparently there is now a 32 bit FAT format for MS-DOS/Windows disks.
I believe the ones that you have been using up to this point have been
16 bit FAT.

>So I figure I should report this to Cupertino so they can address this in 
>the next release of GS/OS ;-)

Good luck!  :-)

But seriously.  I just found out about this last weekend so I guess
the MS-DOS FST and those MS-DOS tools and such that we are currently
using will have to be updated.