Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!silvert From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: HD disks & reading IBMPC disks Summary: ST reads IBM disks Message-ID: <1989Oct7.110518.16904@cs.dal.ca> Date: 7 Oct 89 11:05:18 GMT References: Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert) Reply-To: bill@biomel.UUCP Distribution: comp Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography Lines: 19 In article pinkas@cadev2.intel.com (Israel Pinkas ~) writes: >This has probably been asked before, butI haven't been reading this group >for long. ... >2) Does somebody know how to get a 1040ST to read floppies written by an > IBM PC? I have a Sun386i at work that can write IBM-compatible disks, > and I would love to bypass the download. The ST reads IBM floppies (720K) without difficulty. I routinely transfer files to my ST by writing them to a 3-1/2" PC drive and taking the disk home. But the IBM systems will not read disks formatted on the ST unless you use a special formatting program. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET