Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Error with system 5.0 Message-ID: <8910131749.aa19299@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 13 Oct 89 22:46:06 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 On Fri, 13 Oct 89 14:11:24 GMT you said: >I recently ran across a strange problem with an Appleworks data disk I was >using. When I inserted the disk, GS/OS told me that it could not recognize >the disk in the 3.5" drive. When I looked at it from any other program (ie. >AppleWorks or Copy II+) the disk was fine. I tried disk copy on C2Plus and >it copied fine, but GS/OS won't recognize the original OR the copy. Any ideas? You probably neglected to install the driver for 5 1/4" drives when you installed GS/OS. (Or, it may be installed but disabled.) The other applications recognize the drive because they don't go through GS/OS and hence don't need that driver. Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet Department of Mathematics | stein%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu University of Connecticut | ...psuvax1!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN 32 Hillside Avenue | Waterbury, CT 06710 | Compu$erve 71545,1500 (203) 757-1231 | GEnie ah.stein