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From: wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST disks on a PC - are they readable/writeable ?
Keywords: Disk interchange, IBM PC, disk formatting
Message-ID: <839@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 16 Aug 90 09:20:15 GMT
References: <1946@cybaswan.UUCP>
Organization: Philips Information Systems, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
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In article <1946@cybaswan.UUCP> iiitih@cybaswan.UUCP (Ivan Izikowitz) writes:
>I have recently purchased an STe and I was wondering whether
>there was any truth in the fact that floppy disks formatted
>on an IBM PC are read/writeable by the ST and visa versa.
>If so, is there anything special which needs to be done - eg. does
>one need to format in a special way on the PC? 
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Disks formatted on a PC are writable and readable on a ST. TOS >=1.4 formats
disks in a format acceptable to a PC. As far as I know, the older TOSes have some
quirk which does not exactly format disks to PC standards. There are PD
formatters you can use to get PC formats using old TOS versions. TOS 1.6 
(on STe) should format PC compatible disks.

Correct me if I am wrong...
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