Problems reading older disk on newer drive

[Tom Jennings]

On Sun, 19 Dec 2004, Nico de Jong wrote:

> > Then there's issues with @#$%^ IBM (or m'soft) looking for
> > text in the boot sector and not just that FATid (the 1st byte
> > of each FAT) to ID disks, rendering otherwise-proper MSDOS
> > diskettes unusable.
> 
> A related "bug" is the following (maybe even the same?)
> When I format 3.5" disks on my present conversion system, and insert them in
> an IBM or Windows system with virus check software, it will speak up and say
> it found a Kitty virus. Extensive forensic work has shown that this is not
> the case; the problem is that there is a byte somewhere (can't remember if
> is is bootsector or FAT), which according to MS-DOS is un-used.

Ahh, the Inexorable March of Progress. It must be better -- it's newer! 



PS:

As I was getting vietnamese food to go tonight, a counter kid had
a Univ. Southern. Calif. T-shirt on, the obverse of which said

                    "So and So Famous Person
                       department for the
                  commercialization of technology"


So stupidity has gone institutional. And people think I'm crazy!