dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (10/14/89)
In article <89286.101124SAB121@PSUVM.BITNET> SAB121@PSUVM.BITNET writes: >I recently ran across a strange problem with an Appleworks data disk I was >using. When I inserted the disk, GS/OS told me that it could not recognize >the disk in the 3.5" drive. When I looked at it from any other program (ie. >AppleWorks or Copy II+) the disk was fine. I tried disk copy on C2Plus and >it copied fine, but GS/OS won't recognize the original OR the copy. Any ideas? Please post the exact message you received. Was it something a lot like "GS/OS does not recognize the file system on this disk. Do you want to initialize it?" with Continue and Cancel buttons? If it really was a ProDOS disk and ProDOS 8 programs had no trouble, then probably one of the bytes at the beginning of the directory was messed up--there is at least one byte there that is *supposed* to be 0, but ProDOS 8 and P8 applications don't bother checking it. The ProDOS FST does. The simplest solution is to copy the files onto a freshly formatted 3.5" disk & see if the problem goes away. (Don't just do a Disk Copy--you'd copy the problem right along with the files.) -- --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 America Online: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.