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From: cliff@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Clifford Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: MSDOS & SUNSparc1
Message-ID: <11000@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 27 Feb 91 21:45:59 GMT
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In article <1991Feb27.132904.748@bigsur.uucp> brad@bcars362.UUCP (Brad Shapcott) writes:
>
>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.
>
>brad@bnr

I think I know what your problem is.  Mtools works fine going from ST -> SUN
but I had problems going from SUN->ST.  The directories were intact, and so
was the first sector or so of info for each file but that was all.  I think
that the problem is that one of the flags needs to be set when you compile
Mtools for use withthe ST.

Try compiling the init.c code with the DUP_FLAG set; it has something to do
with rewriting FAT tables.  I haven't had a chance to give it a shot, so
I don't know if it works for sure.  (There was some discussion about this
a few months ago, I beleive.  Apparently this doesn't bother PC's.)

--Cliff
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