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From: sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading IBM 3 1/2 inch disks
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Date: 9 Apr 90 20:35:59 GMT
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jal@pandora.cs.wayne.edu (Jason Leigh) writes:

>Does anyone know of a PD program that will read 720K IBM 3 1/2 inch disks?
>I have tried PC-Patch on PC-Copy but that only does 360K disks.


>Any help would be greatly appreciated (oh and please don't tell me to
>split the 720K disk into 2 360K disks; I want to keep that as the
>last resort).

I think you might be confused. There are no 360K 3 1/2 inch disks.

On IBM systems you have two size diskettes 5 1/4 and 3 1/2

The 5 1/4 has two densities: 360K and 1.2meg.

The 3 1/2 has two densities: 720K and 1.4meg.

Call up a BBS and download the demo version of CrossDOS or go to your
dealer and buy it for $30. It reads 720K 3 1/2" disks. The demo is read
only. The commercial version is read and write MSDOS. No program on the
Amiga can read the 1.4Meg diskettes because of a hardware limitation in
the Amiga disk controller chip.

[tried to email this but it bounced]

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