Re: CD ROM with IIGS???

[khym@bga.com (Khym Mahn)]

In article <Cw1zJo.Jqs@eskimo.com>, Erik Kloeppel <lurch@eskimo.com> wrote:
>Um.. guess again.  ISO 9660 is THE standard for how the data is written 
>to the disk. It has nothing to do with the file system at all.

Nah, ISO 9660 is a filesystem format... you can have HFS CDs, MSDOS
CDs, ProDOS CDs, etc... Heck, I don't even _have_ any ISO 9660 CDs!

>and what MS-DOS disks wont the GS read?  I just got one in the mail
>today and have to trouble.  Sure, I can't run MS-DOS programs or
>Window Programs, but I can sure as heck read the text and data files
>withh a modicum of effort.

Bill North mentioned this... I don't know the details, but I believe
MSDOS 5.0 and later have a slightly different filesystem format that
supports partitions > 32MB, which the MSDOS FST can't deal with. So,
you should be able to read MSDOS disks with volumes < 32 megs in size
(like floppies :) with no problem, but CDROMs and hard disks won't
work. (I guess I should bum a CD from my clone-using neighbor to see
for myself, but I'm pretty sure that this is correct :)

Hmm.... I think the one the MSDOS FST will read is called FAT12, and
the one that supports volumes > 32 megs is called FAT16.
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