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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Reading DOS formatted diskettes
Message-ID: <3977@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Dec 90 14:24:13 GMT
References: <1990Dec3.211612.2176@watmath.waterloo.edu>
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From article <1990Dec3.211612.2176@watmath.waterloo.edu>, by ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey):
> In article <4267@oakhill.UUCP> waynem@oakhill.UUCP (Wayne Martinez) writes:
>>I need help transferring files from a NeXT CubeFloppy to a MegaST-2
> ...
> I use the program IBMFMT by Moshe Braner.  An equivalent program is PS2FORM.
> Both are free.
> 
> I frequently use disks formatted this way, or formatted with the PC, to
> 	write files with PC, read with ST, and to
> 	write files with ST, read with PC.
> 
> For casual use, you should limit the number of such disks on the Atari
> to ONE disk, because the ST system gets confused by the fact that all
> PC volume serial numbers are the same.

Moshe Braner's IBMFMT (at least, version 1.1 - don't use version 1.0)
puts a random serial number in the place the ST expects to find it, so
it's OK to use any number of IBMFMT'ed disks in your ST.  As a general
prescription, though, Lee Dickey is quite right to warn about
IBM-formatted disks.  The serial number problem will hit you just when
you least expect it, and unless you know what's happening it can be very
nasty.  If in doubt, stick to one IBM-formatted disk.

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Graham
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