Re: Cannot write to 5.25" disks from 6.0.1 Finder

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"SloppyMagoo" <joeseeley@gmail.com> wrote in message
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: Bill,
:
: After reading all the replies I went back and formatted one of my 5.25"
: disks using Copy II Plus 9.0 as ProDOS and voila! I could write to this
: disk.  Then going back to GSHK I was able to extract Modem MGR to old
: DOS 3.3 disks I had laying around.  Before I was getting the write
: protect error.

Great. I'm glad you finally got it to work.

: I readily admit half the problem was due to my ignorance with regards
: to GS/OS not being able to write to DOS 3.3 disks.  But regardless, I
: am happy now since I can read/write and format ProDOS 5.25" disks from
: GS/OS.

Don't feel so badly, all computers and OS's are slightly
differernt and have their own little quirks.  :o)

: Thanks again to everyone for all of your help!!  I am sure I will be
: posting more dumb questions in the days to come since I am having some
: other weird issues with this formerly stable machine.

You're welcome. Keep them coming. They keep us on our toes.

: As an aside, I do have the 1.6MB AEHD drive with the special
: AEHDDisk3.5 driver.  To test it out, I just popped in a 3.5" MS-DOS
: disk and formatted it for 1.6MB.  I don't have any special controller
: card in my GS.  Unfortunately it does not seem to use the MSDOS.FST at
: all.

I believe I have one here as well. I need to get it out
and play with it now. Concerning MS-DOS disks, I believe
you must have a superdrive to read those, and Peter Watson's
MS-DOS Utilities, or MUG! to write to them. Also, you need
to take care that they have labels with no more than 11
characters starting with a letter and only Alpha-numerics.

Btw, what were the choices to format in that drive???

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