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From: dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Problems with HP and other MS-DOS formatted disks.
Keywords: MSDOS TOS FAT
Message-ID: <218@dms3b1.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 90 12:56:40 GMT
References: <408*ivan@cvax.psi.ch> <16035@well.sf.ca.us>
Reply-To: dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna)
Organization: Infotouch Systems, Inc., Dallas
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In article <16035@well.sf.ca.us> dsmall@well.UUCP (David Small) writes:

<[The basenote discusses using ST disks in MSDOS machines, and the troubles
<thereof].
<
<	I've had trouble under TOS 1.4 with Toshiba disks as well -- double
<sided, MS-DOS, DOS 3.3, off a Toshiba 1200HB. One time I read a file into
<the ST, and got the 1st sector repeated for the length of the file. Many
<times directory changes (cd) fail or act weirdly. ...

<	I've been told that Toshibas do something especially strange that
<makes things worse, but do not recall the details.

    I've encountered similar problems with disks written in (supposedly)
IBM compatible format with Mtools on a UNIX-PC.  One problem that I
have determined with Mtools is that it only writes the first copy of
the FAT.  I've got plans to correct that short-coming and see if it
fixes the problem. 
    At any rate, could that be the problem with the Toshipa?
>	-- thanks, Dave / Gadgets

    Dave Hanna


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