DOS and Mac floppies w/ 3.0

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2 total messages Started by Gordon Van Huizen Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:33

#1607

Author: Gordon Van Huizen
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 00:33

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I recall a few people posting about not being able to mount DOS floppies  
under 3.0. I'm having trouble with this as well, and noticed that the  
DOS.label file in /usr/filesystems/DOS.fs contains utter garbage:

3     {   

Not very pretty. The console log shows something to the effect of:

DOS File System: Initialized
Sep 28 17:24:17 Workspace: Mounted floppy disk at /3Ff91{@ F

Sometimes the DOS disk shows up the Workspace (with a cheery little name  
that matches the console log entry), sometimes it doesn't. I don't seem to  
be able to eject it in any event. (The eject menu is DIM, and dragging it  
to the recycler does nothing).

Can I just changed the contents of DOS.label? Anyone else experiencing  
this?

WRT Mac floppies, thanks to whoever posted the little goodie about  
removing anything other than mac.fs. That did the trick and FloppyWorks no  
longer has a stranglehold on my Mac floppies. The lack-o-eject plagues Mac  
disks too on occasion. I'm not running Engage...

In a related note, be aware that if you drag a Mac file from a Mac fs to a  
NeXT fs, you will lose the resource fork. To access the .#rsrc# file, it  
MUST still be on a Mac fs.

Gordon
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Re: DOS and Mac floppies w/ 3.0

#1777

Author: Doug DeJulio
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:03

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In article <1992Sep29.003309.457@metrosoft.com> gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen) writes:
>I recall a few people posting about not being able to mount DOS floppies  
>under 3.0. I'm having trouble with this as well, and noticed that the  
>DOS.label file in /usr/filesystems/DOS.fs contains utter garbage:
>
>3     {   
>
>Not very pretty. The console log shows something to the effect of:
>
>DOS File System: Initialized
>Sep 28 17:24:17 Workspace: Mounted floppy disk at /3Ff91{@ F

I have this problem whenever I try to mount a DOS floppy that doesn't
have a volume name.  Every time I mount one that *does* have a volume
name, it comes up properly with that name.  That much is an
improvement over 2.1, where all DOS disks were called "/DOS".  Still,
the default name *should* be something reasonable.  Looks like an
uninitialized variable to me.
-- 
Doug DeJulio
ddj+@cmu.edu

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