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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS
Message-ID: <1989Oct8.202742.10601@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 8 Oct 89 20:27:42 GMT
Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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Lars-Erik Osterud recently pointed out that you can use 
Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS to read normal ST disks on a PC.
This works fine, and I just wanted to add a comment on how bright the
software is -- my NEC Ultralite installs a RAMdisk as drive C, and the
driver routine (which normally creates logical drives C and D) spots
this and creates logical drives D and E as ST equivalents to A and B.

There is a noticable change in performance, since if I run DIR B: on a
PC disk the display scrolls smoothly, but if I run DIR E: on an ST disk
(in the same drive) the display jerks by.  But that is pretty minor I
suspect.  I haven't yet tried editing an Atari WP file on a PC!

I'm a bit hesitant to try this trick on the monster I have at work, 
a 386 with three floppy drives and five HD partitions -- will
PC_DDRVR.SYS duplicate all three drives, just the one 3-1/2" drive,
or what?  Anyone have any ideas what the side effects might be?

-- 
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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