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Re: Superdrive controller + superdrive = read MSDOS? Doesn't work for me
- Subject: Re: Superdrive controller + superdrive = read MSDOS? Doesn't work for me
- From: "Tim Haynes" <timhaynes@alumni.NO.SPAM.PLEASE.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 14:30:13 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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Thanks for all the suggestions, guys! I will try the DOS formatted disk
(with label!) and see what I get. If it works, I'll move MUG! over to
facilitate things. :)
Thanks again!
Tim
"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
>
>