ST and IBM-PC using the same 3.5" disks: problem

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From: braner
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1987 18:22

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At long last (due to the appearance of Turbo C) I got around to transferring
text files (C source) between the ST and the IBM-PC.  As posted here, the IBM
(equipped with a 3.5" DS drive) refuses to read a disk formatted on the ST in
the normal TOS fashion.  I formatted disks on the IBM, put a text file on one,
then moved to the ST.  It read that text OK.  Next I copied a bunch of files
onto the disk.  As long as they were written to the root directory, no problem
(and the IBM reads them fine).  But when I made several subdirectories on the
disk and copied files to them, the ST _crashed_ - had to reboot!  I tried that
several times and it always crashed.  Any ideas?  (I used MS-DOS 3.2 to format
the disk.)

BTW:  MS-DOS 3.2, according to the Turbo-C docs, has a bug:  The ninth FP
exception crashes the OS, need to reboot.  So it's not only TOS that's buggy!

- Moshe Braner

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Subject: ST and IBM-PC using the same 3.5" disks: problem
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Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 14:22:54 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 16 14:22:54 1987
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Summary: using subdir's crashed the ST