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From: vxp6840@ritcv.UUCP (-Vitas P.-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Weird floppy disk behavior
Message-ID: <713@ritcv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Oct-87 17:05:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: ritcv.713
Posted: Thu Oct 15 17:05:38 1987
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In article <11852@decwrl.DEC.COM> goldstein@delni.dec.com (Explicitly political) writes:
>
>    My ST has been doing some very strange things lately.  It used to
>    be that when I swapped disks (internal 1040STf drive) and hit "ESC",
>    the GEM file window would show the new disk's files.  Lately,
>    though, it's been flakey.  It might show _some_ of the new disk's
>    files (i.e., 25 out of 70), or it might show some of the new disk's
>    files alphabetically sorted with some of the old disk's files, or
>    it might work normally.
>    ...
>    What gives?
>          fred
This happened to me too.  It happened only once when I
was copying files from a ram disk to an IBM disk.
As you pointed out, this seems to happen only with IBM formatted
disks.
I suspect that the problem is copying files to IBM sub-directories.
As pointed out before on the net, this causes a problem with the
minor differences between the two formats.
My friend attributed the problem to the 40 folder bug, but I don't
know enough about it to tell.
If you do any disk swapping between IBM's (including PC-ditto) and
the ST, use the root directory only.  It seems to be the most
reliable way to do it.
Hope this helps, and I hope others can elaborate my discription.

-Vitas P.-