Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
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From: brad@bcars241.bnr.ca (Brad Shapcott)
Subject: MSDOS & SUNSparc1
Message-ID: <1991Feb27.132904.748@bigsur.uucp>
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Reply-To: brad@bcars362.UUCP (Brad Shapcott)
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Date: Wed, 27 Feb 91 13:29:04 GMT


Possibly someone out there has experience coaxing Atari ST compatible diskettes
out of a SUNSparc station 1.  I've installed MTOOLS, which supposedly does
MSDOS compatible diskettes.  I was under the impression that this format was
very close to Atari`s.  But beyond being able to read the directory and the 
first few bytes of any file, there doesn't seem to be much I can do with a disk
made this way.  I tried formatting on both the SUN and the Atari, and the disks
work fine on the SUN.  Same problem as above though when I put the disk into
the ST.

Now, I had to reconfigure the kernel on my machine, hunt down manual entries
galore and try every sneaky way to get the disks to work.  Right now the only
other step I can see is to either change the source to MTOOLS for full Atari
compatibility, or to write a driver for the Atari that reads MSDOS and writes
Atari.  Any better ideas?  Anybody know of tools like this that already exist?

brad@bnr