etan@sunEc.tellabs.com (Nate Stelton) (01/19/91)
I got a copy of DC format so that I could write files on a disk with a PC and read them on my 1040ST, but it's not working. I can write the files on the disk and read the back with my MS-DOS machine, but when I try to look at them on the Atari, they're not there. Am I trying to do the impossible, or am I just doing something wrong? Nate Stelton, etan@tellabs.com
boyd@mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (01/21/91)
In article <5083@tellab5.tellabs.com>, etan@sunEc.tellabs.com (Nate Stelton) writes: >I got a copy of DC format so that I could write files on a disk with a PC and >read them on my 1040ST, but it's not working. I can write the files on the >disk and read the back with my MS-DOS machine, but when I try to look at them >on the Atari, they're not there. > >Am I trying to do the impossible, or am I just doing something wrong? > >Nate Stelton, etan@tellabs.com Get a copy of Vkiller 3.whatever and check your disks. I'll bet you a buck that you have a virus, probably the Signum virus. It does nothing, but will make a disk unreadable by a PC. I personally use ps2form to format disks to work on both machines. I do it every day, and have never had a problem. The virus thing drove me nuts, I would format a disk on the PC, put files on it, take it home and just look at it (no writes), and it would no longer work in the PC's. I tried about 15 formatters before it occured to me that a virus might be the culprit! -- Mickey R. Boyd | "God is a comedian playing to an FSU Computer Science | audience too afraid to laugh." Technical Support Group | email: boyd@fsucs.cs.fsu.edu | - Voltaire