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Subject: Re: wishful? I want to write an amiga disk from a sparcstation...
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Date: 24 Nov 89 15:56:03 GMT
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From: Montgomery Kosma <kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM>
Subject: Re: wishful? I want to write an amiga disk from a sparcstation...
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    Date: Wed, 22-Nov-89 01:16:25-PST
    Date: 22 Nov 89 01:59:59 GMT
    From: Toivo Pedaste <toivo%uniwa.uwa.OZ@uunet.UU.NET>

    lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:

    >I'd have to check to make sure, but I _think_ the internal floppy drive on the
    >SPARCStation is incapable of writing 720K diskettes. I believe it will read
    >them though, so you might be able to transfer files from Amiga to SPARCStation,
    >but not the other way around.

    I've had no problem with writing 720k disks on a SPARCstation for reading
    on the amiga. I did originally format them on the amiga.
    -- 
	    Toivo Pedaste				ACSNET: toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz

So, how did you do it? Could you outline the process, software used,
etc. ?  Did you go the MS-DOS route or write straight to an
amiga-formatted (880K) disk?  What sw did you use on the sparcstation
end of things?

Thanks!

monty
kosma@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com