Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker!bloom-beacon!bhelf From: bhelf@athena.mit.edu (Bill Helfinstine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: Re: 1581 drive and msdos Message-ID: <1990Oct1.195506.1108@athena.mit.edu> Date: 1 Oct 90 19:55:06 GMT References: <1990Oct1.110216.209@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> Sender: daemon@athena.mit.edu (Mr Background) Distribution: comp Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 15 >> Does anyone know if there is a program (or even if it is possible...) >> to either read 720K MSDOS format disks in this drive - or to read/write >> 1581 disks in a standard pc-clone drive (720K or 1.44M). >The 1581 can't format MS-DOS disks but it can read them if they're 720K. I >think a program that does this appeared in an old issue of RUN but I don't know >which one. The 1581 can format, read, and write 3.5" MS-DOS 720K disks with the proper program. I believe the Big Blue Reader will do so, or there were several issues of RUN in early 1989 that had programs to format and read/write. Bill Helfinstine bhelf@athena.mit.edu