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From: kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Reading IBM PS/2 disks
Message-ID: <26473@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 23 Sep 89 03:34:09 GMT
References: <797@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
Reply-To: kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Kevin Clendenien)
Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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In article <797@metaphor.Metaphor.COM> lgold@bambam.metaphor.com (Lynn Gold) writes:
>I need to read some ASCII files off disks written by an IBM PS/2.
>
Lynn,
   I do this all the time.  On the PS/2 you format your disk like this:
FORMAT A: /N:9 /T:80

This will create a 720K disk that can be read by your Atari.  I've
done this from Model 80's, Model 60's, Model 50's, and Model 30's.
They all have a 1.4M floppy drive in them, so it will work...



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kclenden@silver.bacs.indiana.edu                          Kevin Clendenien
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