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From: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Writing Amiga Disks on Sun Sparc Station
Message-ID: <15877@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 15 Nov 90 00:13:21 GMT
References: <9011141815.AA01360@pokey.src.honeywell.com>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <9011141815.AA01360@pokey.src.honeywell.com> pockrand@src.honeywell.com (Mitch Pockrandt) writes:
>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 suspect it uses a standard floppy controller, and in general I don't
think those can deal with writing entire raw tracks to a disk, even if you
could get the data in the right format (even and odd bits split, checksums,
different sector headers, no sector gaps, sync marks, etc, etc).

	I'm afraid you're stuck with MSDOS-format sectored disks as an
intermediate.  It's not that bad.

-- 
Randell Jesup, Keeper of AmigaDos, Commodore Engineering.
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