Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!yale!quasi-eli!cs.yale.edu!fischer-michael From: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: MS-DOS --> Atari --> MS-DOS Message-ID: <25561@cs.yale.edu> Date: 13 Jul 90 14:42:02 GMT References: <2982@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> <3065@uniol.UUCP> Sender: news@cs.yale.edu Reply-To: fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) Distribution: comp.sys.atari.st Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 23 In article <3065@uniol.UUCP> rode@uniol.UUCP (Dirk Rode) writes: >Moin, > >csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: > >>>If so, which programs do I need and how is it done? >>You don't need anything but the DESKTOP formatter if you own a STE. >>TOS 1.4 and TOS 1.6 finally have a completely DOS-compatible disk format. > I don't think so, look at disk free: Atari says something about 726016 >Bytes, an IBM says something about 728112 Bytes free. But the new TOS >versions - thats correct - make an IBM like Bootsector. TOS won't write the last two clusters of a disk---thinks they are always in use. It can read them however. This was a bug in TOS 1.0 that has been preserved for compatibility. However, that does not imply that the disk format is incompatible. As far as I know, disks formatted by the TOS 1.4 desktop formatter are completely compatible with IBM. It's just that TOS 1.4 can't fill them completely. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: | | Bitnet: | | UUCP: | ==================================================