Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!yale!think.com!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!ugun13!ridderbusch.pad From: ridderbusch.pad@nixdorf.com (Frank Ridderbusch, PXD-S4) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: MTools Message-ID: Date: 23 Dec 90 12:40:57 GMT References: <2887@laura.UUCP> Sender: fgth@ugun13.UUCP Reply-To: ridderbusch.pad@sni.de (Frank Ridderbusch, STO XS 141) Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Paderborn, West Germany Lines: 42 In-reply-to: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de's message of 21 Dec 90 13:33:09 GMT >>>>> On 21 Dec 90 13:33:09 GMT, klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) said: R> Does anybody have experience with MTools? R> I would like to write files to a floppy on my Sun Sparcstation using MTools R> and read them with my Atari ST. However, on the ST I can read only the R> first one or two sectors, then the last portion of the file is repeated, R> then a read error occurs. R> On a PC reading the file is no problem. (No, I did not touch the PC myself R> - I had someone doing that for me :-).) Consequently MTools works ok but R> something is wrong at the ST side. R> Any hints? R> -- R> Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de R> Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet R> Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 R> D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386 I am also using Mtools on my local un*x box and had the same problems that you mention (My Mtools was an older version, not 2.0). Further investigation showed, that Mtools only wrote and updated one File Allocation Table (FAT). While PC's have not trouble with this, the ST does. My sources of Mtools had a define in it to allow writing of both FAT's. After recompiling the Mtools worked okay. Hope, this helps. -- MfG/Regards /==== Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG / Ridderbusch / , Heinz Nixdorf Ring / /./ 4790 Paderborn, West Germany /=== /,== ,===/ /,==, // / // / / // / / \ NERV:ridderbusch.pad / / `==/\ / / / \ BTX:0525467066-0001 Email: ridderbusch.pad@nixdorf.com (America (North & South)) ridderbusch.pad@sni.de (Rest of world)