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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: System 2.2 d/n write/format DOS floppies!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.183310.4751@wam.umd.edu>
- Keywords: DOS, Floppies
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- References: <1992Nov8.180850.6211@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 18:33:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.180850.6211@news2.cis.umn.edu> walt@molbio.cbs.umn.edu (Walter Sauerbier) writes:
- >3) 'Successfully' formatting MS-DOS diskettes, and writing files to them
- > often yields diskettes that appear EMPTY to MS-DOS machines. I am writing
- > filenames in the proper MS-DOS format (xxxxxxxx.xxx).
-
-
- I found formatting a DOS floppy (BuildDOS) on the mono 16meg
- slabs at school to be both very slow and very unreliable.
- 1.44 meg _true_ disks also have this problem, but I have found
- that "punched" disks (which work fine on my PC, and on the
- PS/2s at school w/o error) are _completely_ unreliable if you
- use them with the NeXT system.
-
- For empty files, most of the time a simple chkdsk /f a: run from
- a true-blue PC will fix the problem.
- (i.e. the lost files are what you're looking for, but the
- names, at least, go the way of the dodo)..
-
- My solution to this problem is to log into a PC on the net
- and FTP the files local from my account... :-(
-
-
-
- >Is this a hardware or a software problem?
- >Is there an upgrate/utility that can consistently deal with MS-DOS floppies?
- >Are there utilities that can read/write Macintosh or Amiga diskettes?
- ^^^^ ^^^^
-
- I thought NS3.0 was supposed to add Mac disk compatibility?
- As for Amiga, if anyone is interested, the 880k format is
- really rather simple. Unless the controller is crippled
- (a la IBM PC) it should be fairly easy to do. The various
- other formats (i.e. the various High density standards) on
- the other hand, are probably next to impossible. (FFS
- LD floppies shouldn't be any more difficult than OFS LD
- floppies...)..
-
-
- I have also noticed that about 2/3rds of the machines in our
- labs cannot take floppies--that is, their floppy slot is there,
- but there is a piece of black plastic (a dust door??) that
- stands in the way and will not budge.
-
-
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