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From: rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga files to Atari ST format : Help
Message-ID: <3478.279debd0@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
Date: 24 Jan 91 01:02:24 GMT
References: <480@opus.NMSU.Edu> <3431.279b8b31@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu> <1991Jan23.094835.6676@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
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In article <1991Jan23.094835.6676@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>, lsmichae@informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Lars Michael (AKBP WS 1990)) writes:
> rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:
>>An ST disk is exactly the same format as IBM disks, so all you need to be 
>>able to do is read an IBM Disk.
> 
> That's wrong for TOS Versions older than the Rainbow TOS:
> 	The TOS format is *not* exactly the same as the MS DOS format.
> 	The media deskriptor byte is different. This byte is used by MS DOS but
> 	ignored by TOS. That's why an ATARI can read an write PC disks but a PC
> 	can't even read a TOS disk.
> 
> The TOS Versions V1.04 (Rainbow TOS) and higher Versions (STE TOS and TT TOS)
> use the original deskriptor byte used by MS DOS.

So the correct solution is to have the ST friend upgrade to TOS 1.4  :*)

Seriously though, just format the disk in IBM format on your Amiga.

(BTW, on my roomates Zenith it wt will read ST disks that were formatted 
with 1.0. (I've got 1.4 now) But is Zenith would also read extended file 
formats, including 80 tracks with 10 sectors. (809K))

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