Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!risky.ecs.umass.edu!dime!umcvmb!c506634 From: c506634@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Eric Edwards) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Problem using MSDOS-utils Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 18:34:05 GMT Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.misc Organization: Hackers without Hard Drives Lines: 31 > > All the new macintoshes with a highdensity drive come with an application > called Apple File Exchange. This program allows the user to format, read > and write to ProDos, MAC and MS-Dos disk, with the sizes 400K,720K,800K,1.4M > > Now I was using this program to transfer data on a 720K MSDOS disk to my > Amiga 500 with one drive + TRUMPCARD. I use PCPATCH for msdos on my Amiga. > > The problem now is that the MACINTOSH does not read disks formatted on the > amiga, and that it cannot read files from a MAC-formatted msdos disk, that > were written by my amiga. > > It is however possible to format and write on the Macintosh, and than read > everything on the amiga. > In my experience, Apple File Exchange is very finicky about which MSDOS disks it will read. The problem is not limited to disks formatted on Amigas. Several of the PS/2's on campus have this problem too. If a DOS disk is formatted in these machines, Apple File Exchange will not read it. All the other PS/2's and my amiga have no problem with the disk. If the disk is formated on the Mac, then everybody's happy. On the flip side, I have a disk that will format on my amiga but not on a PC. The PC barfs with "Track 0 bad" However, once formatted with PCPATCH on the amiga, the PC has no problems with it. I thought Amiga's were supposed to be the finicky ones. Eric Edwards: c506634 @ "I say we take off and nuke the entire site Inet: umcvmb.missouri.edu from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Bitnet: umcvmb.bitnet -- Sigourney Weaver, _Aliens_