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Jonathan Cox (coxjp@cs.man.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hi,
: 
: I'm having trouble getting my A3000 to recognise DOS disks under RISCOS 3.1.
: It seems to recognise disks that have been formatted by the RISCOS formatter
: (720k DOS) but not those formatted on a PC under MS-DOS 5.00 (ie. A:\> format
: /t:80 /n:9).

I think this is more a problem of cheap floppy drives on the PC.

Sometimes I need to transfer files between two machines ... namely a SCO unix
box and a PC.
The work is on the SCO machine and so I use 'doscp' to copy the file onto the
floppy (a long while later).  Then I trudge to the PC and try to copy the
file onto the HD ... BONG!

The PC can read the directory but fails to get anything from the drive!
Solution:

Format DOS disc on machine you wish to manipulate data, eg: in my case I solved
this by formatting the Disc on the PC, copying the file onto it from the SCO
box and hey presto it then worked.

Also, another observation, do you use high density discs but format them to
double density?

I've often seen real PCs have trouble doing this!!!

: 
: Is this problem unique to me or has somebody else managed to get this to work?
: How does RISCOS recognise disk format?  For example, can I get RISCOS to
: recognise the disk by altering the contents of the boot sector?
: 
: Thanks,
: 
: Jon.
: 
: 
: --
: Jonathan Cox.                              Email coxjp@cs.man.ac.uk
: IT 301, Department of Computer Science,
: University of Manchester,                  Tel: (+44) (0)61-275-6270
: Manchester.  M13 9PL.  England.            Fax: (+44) (0)61-275-6280

Hope this helps!


Jayce.
 
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