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From: SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Kevin Maguire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Formatting disks for use with IBM PCs
Message-ID: <90150.160529SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Date: 30 May 90 15:05:29 GMT
References: <1758@engage.enet.dec.com>
Organization: University of Liverpool
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In article <1758@engage.enet.dec.com>, wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace)
says:
>
>In article <721@zinn.MV.COM>, kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal) writes...
>>Is there an easily-obtainable, well-regarded program
>>that will allow me to format DSDD disks for the IBM PC on my Atari?
>I use DCFORMAT and have read other people having good results with IBMFMT (not
>sure of the spelling).

I've used DCFORMAT and the disks produced are readable by the MSDOS 3.3
PC's around here but none of them will write to the disks. I just copy the
boot sector (of a disk that has been formatted on a PC with MSDOS 3.3)
onto the newly ST desktop formatted disk (altering the serial number
of course). THis is the only way I've found that produces MSDOS 3.3
writable disks.

Kevin Maguire

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