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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Can a PC read ST disks?
Keywords: compatabiblity
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Date: 23 Jan 91 06:58:53 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.224413.20354@rice.edu> <1991Jan18.221204.4936@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
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In article <1991Jan18.221204.4936@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>,
gordon@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (John Gordon) writes:
|> 	You can interchange 3.5" DD disks between STs and PCs *IF* the disk
|> was formatted on a PC.  If the disk was formatted on an ST, the PC can't
|> read
|> it, but the ST can work just fine with PC-formatted disks.

Hmm, I thought since TOS 1.4 it made no difference whether the disk was
formatted on an ST or a PC. Comments anyone?

Anyway, I am able to exchange floppies formatted on my ST with my Sun
SparcStation where I read and write them with Mtools.

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