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MsDos Formats? (Was: CD ROM w IIGS)



In article <YDHSBC8T@zelator.de> Theo Schneider, tooly@zelator.de writes:
>>I have been looking for PC CDs as you describe above, but ISO 9660
>>seems to be a dying format. All the PC CDs I've seen lately appear
>>to be in MsDos format (which the GS won't read). Can you give a
>
>Why not, when You install the MSDos FST the GS can also read MSDos CD's

It was my understanding that the MsDos FST would read 1.44 HD
floppies _only_, because MsDos uses a different "volume structure"
depending on the volume size. I could not successfully read an
MsDos Syquest 44 cartridge. This may be due to my configuration of
Apple High-speed scsi, or due to my doing something wrong. :)
I'm _not_ using the shareware MsDos utility package.

>>list of your PC titles that can be succesfully read on the GS, and
>>their date?
>
>The last MSDos CD that i use was an Game CD, i can read all Files in this
>CD.

So, the MsDos FST will read MsDos CDs. Good news. Assuming I have
the right hardware, is there any MsDos format the FST _can't_ handle?

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