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From: pockrand@src.honeywell.com (Mitch Pockrandt)
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Subject: Re: Writing Amiga Disks on Sun Sparc Station
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Every time this question comes up, the answer always involves using
MS-DOS format disks as intermediate formats in the transfer process
between Sparc and AmigaDos.

Is there any technical (hardware or software) reason that would prevent
writing a program under the Sun OS from using the local floppy drive to
write/read AmigaDos format tracks?  (or the converse on am Amiga?)

I'm fairly familiar with the Amiga layout and hardware, but have only 
recently gotten access to a Sparc with a floppy drive, and I don't have
any documentation on its hardware or formats.

Mitch Pockrandt
(pockrand@src.honeywell.com)