Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!eunomia.rice.edu!bro From: bro@eunomia.rice.edu (Douglas Monk) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: MTOOLS on Sparcs (Was Re: De-archiving) Summary: need DUPFAT flag Message-ID: <1990Nov5.191504.7547@rice.edu> Date: 5 Nov 90 19:15:04 GMT References: <1420@fornax.UUCP> <1990Nov5.075327@loon.ubc.ca> Sender: news@rice.edu (News) Organization: Rice University, Houston Lines: 15 The version of mtools I got would not work as compiled because it only wrote one copy of the FAT area. IBM's could read such disks, but my ST could not. Goofy behavior resulted. The solution was to compile the file init.c with the DUP_FAT #define set. This makes the code that writes the FAT update both copies. Remember: like all IBM formatted disks, these disks will not have a serial number, so your ST can get confused and write back the wrong FAT and directory information to them in some circumstances. I recommend using them as read-only disks unless you know EXACTLY what is going on. Doug Monk (bro@rice.edu) Disclaimer: These views are mine, not necessarily my organization's.