Unrecognized 800k disk

[snelson@news.weeg.uiowa.edu (Steven Nelson)]

I installed ss6.0.1 on my GS (Rom01 IIe upgrade) yesterday.  Today I noticed
a peculiarity.  No, I do not think this is bug in ss6.0.1, but I'm curious for
some opinions.

Problem:  One of my 3.5 800k disks reads/writes/verifies just fine on my IIe
with superdrive controller and superdrive and Unidisk3.5 drives.  Likewise,
it works fine in the 3.5drives on the GS when in P8, but GS/OS doesn't
recognize the disk and puts up the eject/initialize box.  I'm pretty sure
it used to work on the GS under ss6.0.  Clue: I also think this disk was
originally formatted as a HFS disk, then was made into a prodos disk using
the erase function rather than the initialize function in the 'Disk' options
under ss6.0.  What does GS/OS use to reject a disk that P8 doesn't?

I haven't tried, but I imagine I could copy the disk under P8 to a fresh
disk and everything would be fine.  Incidently, the disk has 1 folder in
the main dir, and 12 files in the folder, using about 49% of the blocks.

Comments anyone?

  --Steven Nelson                steven-nelson@uiowa.edu