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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 25 Apr 1991 10:20:14 EDT
From: <PHB100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <91115.102014PHB100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: floppy compatibility problem

Greetings and Salutations.

I have a weird problem w/ compatibility between my ST floppies and the
PS/2 mod 50 at work (DOS 4.00).

Floppies formatted on my ST show as empty at work ("file not found").  I
then formatted some floppies at work, took them home and copied some
files onto them from ST floppies.  When I brought it back to work I got
the "sector not found" error.  I took it across the hall to an AT machine
and got the same error on the external DS drive.  When I tried a
directory on the external HD drive, I got a garbage directory.  On
another Mod 50 I got the "sector not found."  On a Mod 80 (running OS/2
1.3) the directory came up perfectly.  I had to copy the files
individually onto the hard drive of that machine, reformat the disks, and
copy them back.

What's going on?  I USED to be able to read floppies formatted on my ST
at work.  And why when I just copy files onto the disks does it mess up
the directory?

Is are my floppy drives going bad? (this is the only explanation I can
think of...)???

Thanx in advance.

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Paul Baughman          PHB100@psuvm.bitnet