Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Can IBM R/W STANDARD Atari disks? Message-ID: Date: 4 Oct 90 09:39:45 GMT References: <1990Oct4.034732.536@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Distribution: comp Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 32 In-Reply-To: norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu's message of 4 Oct 90 03:47:32 GMT >>>>> On 4 Oct 90 03:47:32 GMT, norlin@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Norman Lin) said: > Well, the subject line basically says it all. Not really. Double Density is a standard format for Atari disks. The subject header should have "single density" in place of "standard". > There are a couple of programs > out there that read/write double density Atari diskettes, but are there any > that can access Atari single density (88K) diskettes? "Enhanced" density > (128K)? I have not been able to find any, and would like to know if it is > possible/has been done. If you can read and write "enhanced" density diskettes, then you probably have a 1050 drive. Have you considered upgrading your 1050 to handle double density, with something like the U.S. Doubler chip? You get two benefits in one that way. On a related subect, Has anyone else had difficulties with the "util" program that was posted recently? I tried using it to transfer some files using a genuine IBM PC/AT. On many of the files, it didn't copy over the entire file -- only one sector. On the files it did copy properly, it was so slow that I would have been better off downloading them via modem (except that I don't have an 850 interface module). --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics, Inc. portuesi@sgi.com "product plus promotion equals profit" -- consolidated