Re: Superdrive controller + superdrive = read MSDOS? Doesn't work for me

[andrew.webber4@virgin.net (Andrew Webber)]

"Joel" <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<tMednd7QlIfKD4mjXTWc3A@comcast.com>...
> The MS-DOS FST has a few quirks.
> The disk has to have a label. From Win95 click on properties while the disk
> is selected.
> Without a label it won't be recognized.
> Only old style 8.3 filenames, not Win95+ long filenames are supported.
> The FST is read-only.
> There is a CDA available in the usual places called MUG which lets you write
> to an MS-DOS formatted disk and do a few more things than the FST.
> 
> 
> "Tim Haynes" <trhaynes.NOSPAM.PLEASE@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:av1stq$b8laq$1@ID-21339.news.dfncis.de...
> >
> > I recently bought a superdrive controller for my IIgs.  I modified a drive
> > to take the Superdrive mechanism from a Mac IIsi (knew that thing would be
> > good for something someday... ;) and updated my GSOS 6.0.1 with the Apple
> > 3.5 Disk installer so that it could format 1.44 meg disks.  So far, so
>  good!
> > Works fine with 1.44 meg PRODOS disks.  I then installed the MSDOS FST and
> > rebooted.  I checked the FSTs folder and the MSDOS one is there.  But when
>  I
> > put in a formatted MSDOS disk, nothing happens.  The disk light comes on
> > momentarily, but no disk shows up on the desktop and no message is
> > displayed.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong...?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Tim
> >
> >


MUG V1.20(pwatson@bigpond.net.au - $10) is the latest version and is
great. You place the MSDOS disk (WIN9x,NT,XP,DOS formated doesn't
matter) in the drive and control it from the NDA. From the NDA you can
copy files too and from the disk. Even if the finder doesn't see the
disk it will work.

I have been using this for ages and is my main way of transferring
files from my PC to the IIGS.

I have also found out another way recently when trying to run a MAC
emulator on my pc. With it was a utility (HFVExplorer)to read HFS
floppies on a PC (really kool). This way you could use the IIGS to
read/write to a MAC disk then use the utility on the PC. :-)

The utility even lets you format a disk in HFS format.

Andrew