Re: Stupid Questions 102

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

David Turner (dturner@brando.ece.utexas.edu) wrote:

: On 6 Jan 1996, Cold Fusion wrote:

: > What do you need to do to be able to read MSDOS disks in GSOS? I copied 
: > the MSDOS FST from the Disk Tools disk to the FST folder, but the system 
: > tells me the floppies are unreadable (trying ones formatted at 720K, 
: > figuring the drive couldn't handle 1.44's). Hmm!

:   You must have the Apple SuperDrive (and controller card) to be able to read
: MS-DOS disks.

...Or some other form of disk which is compatible with MS-DOS.  The 720k
disks are a less-high-tech form of 3.5" disk than the Apple 3.5 Drive is
capable of reading.  The SuperDrive can handle both 720k and 1.44Mb disks,
but you've got to have the right controller.  I think there is also a card
out there to allow you to connect a genuine MS-DOS drive to your ][,
though why you would want to do that I haven't quite figured out... 8-)

I guess the MS-DOS FST is also good for things like ZIP drives, SyQuest
drives, and Flopticals that have universal disk formats (but not file
formats) that cross platforms.

--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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