Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!agate!linus!philabs!briar!rfc From: rfc@briar.Philips.Com (Robert Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Re: Can IBM R/W STANDARD Atari disks? Message-ID: <109634@philabs.Philips.Com> Date: 5 Oct 90 19:36:54 GMT References: <1990Oct4.034732.536@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu> Sender: news@philabs.Philips.Com Reply-To: rfc@briar.philips.com.UUCP (Robert Casey) Distribution: comp Organization: Philips Laboratories, Briarcliff Manor, NY Lines: 10 If you have a spare Atari drive, maybe you could remove the Atari interface and connect the drive to the IBM PC's disk controller? Then the PC could read/write Atari single density disks. This assumes: that the drive mechanism and the board that lives just above the heads, etc. is enough similar to the regular PC disk drives. Also that you have a spare Atari drive, and that you don't mind wasting the space inside your PC for an otherwise useless drive. Assuming that any of the above can be made to work. Even if the PC can make the single density drive do something, someone would have to write a program so that the PC can find the Atari's disk DOS stuff (VTOL table, if I remember correctly). Anyone try such a thing?