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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Trouble with Amiga floppies - a possible solution
Keywords: Amiga floppies MFM
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Date: 8 Oct 90 23:14:57 GMT
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In article <1850@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk> eesrajm@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Andrew J Michael) writes:
>If anyone trys this [copying Amiga disks on an ST or PC] 
> and either succeeds or fails, please let me know.  

Please post the results to the net.  It is now abundantly clear that
they company that did the disk production munged the boot disk.  Fortunately,
there is a backup file, minix.img.bu on it, which may save the day.  I am
not yet sure how many other disks were badly copied.  

Part of the problem is that the company was instructed to copy disk 1 as
an Amiga disk and the rest as PC 720K disks.  This instruction was repeated
many times in many media (phone, letter, FAX, ...) but they probably couldn't
believe it, and did it their way instead.  After all, they are the experts
on disk copying, and I am merely a humble user.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)