Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!aplcen!haven!uvaarpa!hudson!bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU!gl8f From: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Reading IBM PS/2 disks Message-ID: <2026@hudson.acc.virginia.edu> Date: 24 Sep 89 01:24:20 GMT References: <797@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> <798@lzaz.ATT.COM> Sender: news@hudson.acc.virginia.edu Reply-To: gl8f@bessel.acc.Virginia.EDU (Greg Lindahl) Organization: Dept. of Astronomy, University of Virginia Lines: 23 In article <798@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes: >In article <797@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>, lgold@bambam.metaphor.com (Lynn Gold) writes: >> The 314s on my ST can't read high-density IBM 3.5" floppies; they >> can't read low-density disks produced by a high-density drive. >Try formatting on the ST. Either use TOS1.4, or a PD formatter that >can put the IBM magic in sector 0. This isn't the entire answer. There is a longstanding problem in the PC world related to mixing high density and normal drives. Yes, she needs to use TOS1.4 and a PD formatter when formatting disks on her ST, but she also needs to make sure that she formats disks on the same type of drive she writes on them with, and that she only writes on a single disk from one type of drive. The DOS docs do say this, in a very round-about fashion. To verify that this is indeed the problem, she can try reading the disk in a IBM normal 3.5" disk drive, such as one on a PS/2 model 25 or 30. ------ Greg Lindahl | Welcome to Mars, Earthling. We Martians don't like gl8f@virginia.edu | illegal aliens, so we'll just have to deport you.