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From: hv@chyde.uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST->IBM PC, Floppies OK w/TOS 1.4
Keywords: TOS 1.4, IBM PC Floopy format
Message-ID: <840@chyde.uwasa.fi>
Date: 9 Oct 89 07:22:56 GMT
References: <18093@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <10053@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Reply-To: hv@chyde.uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland
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In article <10053@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes:
>In article <18093@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> soohoo@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ken "nmi" Soohoo) writes:
>Too bad PCs can't read disks formatted for 10 sectors per track. I thought
>that was what the silly BIOS parameter block was for, but DOS is too stupid
>to understand what's written there... But yeah, it's handy to get 720K at
>a shot.

I think there is one possible way worth trying this. There is a program called
FDFORMT2 for PC that allows one format a disk with many various parameters.
And this program comes with memory resident program that allows (certifies)
a machine to read such disks. I have successfully format in my AT with this
program normal 360K floppys to 832K and 1.2M disks to 1.49M. You can find
this program with ftp from address below.


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