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From: fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: How to read MS-DOS discs on a Rainbow ??
Message-ID: <1990Sep13.215131.27855@techbook.com>
Date: 13 Sep 90 21:51:31 GMT
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In article <3483@rwthinf.UUCP> bode@cip-s01.informatik.rwth-aachen.de () writes:
>
> 
>Is there any posibility to read *normal* DOS-discs
>with a Rainbow ??
>  
  if you turn mediacheck on, you can read ibm single sided disks.  (and
write to them, too.)  this, of course, only applies to msdos.

  the drives in the rainbow are single sided, and cannot read a double sided
disk, which is the ibm norm.

  there was rumored to be a product from suitable solutions that was basically
an ibm compatible drive that plugged into your rainbow.  however, SS no longer
sells rainbow stuff anymore, and they were expensive to begin with. 

  connecting double sided drives to the rainbow is real simple, it's getting
the proper device drivers that's a bitch.  if i could find such a driver, 
i'd remove the rx50 from my rainbow and stick in a tandon tm101-4 drive
i have sitting around here.   (a brand new drive, never used.)

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