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Article #40450Weirdness with High Density drives and the ST
From: Mickey Boyd
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 04:52
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 1990 04:52
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I have had the following happen to me, and am unable to explain or correct it.
Anyone having a solution or an explination please post to this newsgroup, or
reply to me directly.
The scenario:
1. I formatted a 3.5" floppy in Double Density mode on an 386
equiped with High Density drives (I used format b: /t:80 /n:9)
2. I then put some files on it, with the PC (not an st).
3. Took it home to my trusty ST, ready to blast through some editing
with Tempus 2. Files read fine from the disk, in and out of
subdirectories.
4. Take back my now edited and improved files, and shove the disk
back into the 386.
5. 386 gives me no volume name (there was one), and no files.
After some experimentation, I have found that if I modify a disk in any way
(with the ST), the contents will be gone as far as the 386 is concerned. I
am most miffed.
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Mickey Boyd | "Nobody can be exactly like me.
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FSU Comp Sci | - Tallulah Bankhead
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!neat.cs.toronto.edu!omicron.cs.fsu.edu!fsucs.cs.fsu.edu!boyd Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st From: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Subject: Weirdness with High Density drives and the ST Message-ID: <9002040453.AA12498@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu> Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) Organization: Florida State University Computer Science Department Date: 4 Feb 90 04:52:42 GMT Lines: 28