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From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: MSDOS formater
Message-ID: <888@TALOS.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jan 91 21:01:02 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.101341.1327@urz.unibas.ch> <1991Jan25.101744.1329@urz.unibas.ch>
Organization: NPRI, Alexandria VA
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hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer) writes:

:In article <1991Jan24.101341.1327@urz.unibas.ch>,
:hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer) writes:
:: Is there a PD diskformater around, which produces real MSDOS disk, except
:: that it puts in a serial number? I mean it should write a MSDOS bootsector
:: (except serial number), a compatible media byte, the FAT and the root
:: directory should have the same length and it should write the same number of
:: FATs as on MSDOS disks. Is there such a beast around?

:I've got some answers, but none of them did answer my question. So I have to
:clarify myself. I know that there are tons of utilities, that write MSDOS
:kompatible bootsectors. One of them is the formater of TOS 1.4. But I look for
:a formater that also writes all the other stuff ecaxtly like MSDOS does in the
:standard way. So that after formating nobody can see, if it was formated on a
:MSDOS PC (say MSDOS 3.2) or on the ST. The use would be, that no utility that
:claims to read/write MSDOS disk would deny to handle such a disk. The utility
:could be on any machine (Mac, SUN,...). There are such utilitie, that only
:partaly handle the MSDOS bootsector parameters. One is GEMDOS another is MSDOS
:itself.

I use PC-Ditto I (the 8088 emulator in software version) on
the ST and format using PC-DOS 3.3.  If you must have
PC/MS-DOS formatting why not go to the real thing?



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