jazzee wrote:
I cannot believe this.I borrowed a 1200 & got all set ready for doing the stuff then i see there is no workbench disk with the 1200 so i try with the workbench 1.3 and no good.Now i am stuck,i have a 500 a 1200 and a workbench 1.3 ,this just get better.Any suggestions?
Thanks again
The disk you use to boot the A1200 shouldn't matter because the filesystem routines are in ROM, therefore you would be able to read FFS disks even if you boot with a 1.3 WB (it ain't windows...

It is likely that your floppies got damaged...
Also, Kickstart 2.x supports FFS, just not the Directory Cache mode which means that a 37.175 or better ROM chip would enable your A500 to read the disks as well...