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From: tgingric@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Tyler S Gingrich)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS disks
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Date: 31 Jan 91 13:00:53 GMT
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In article <AbdWRzy00Uh_84kZkn@andrew.cmu.edu> ja2f+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jinmo Ahn) writes:
>
>    I can't get my new nextstation to read ms-dos disks.  I have tried
>both 1.44 meg and 720k disks.  Even after formatting the disk with
>BuildDOS application, Workspace gives  "Floppy disk is unreadble". Is my
>drive defective?
>        
Possibly.  The other possibility is your 'software setup' might be incorrect.
I don't know (offhand) what might be wrong, but here is what my Station does:

  1) Insert 1.44Mb Dos Floppy.  Diskette Icon appears in viewer with 'DOS'
     label.  Double-clicking on it brings up the directory in the viewer.  I
     am able to edit text files, etc.  Later this week I will test Improv and
     Word Perfect to see if they'll properly import files created by their
     ms-dos counterparts.

  2) Insert 720Kb dos floppy.  Same as #1.

  3) Insert 'unreadble' flopply and the Station offers me the init panel.

  
Tyler

PS: Does your station correctly format/read/write unix diskettes??