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From: pp39184@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Payman Parastaran)
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Subject: Re: Help with ST <-> NeXT disk swapping
Keywords: NeXT, Atari, ST, DOS format, disk
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Date: 24 Mar 91 21:50:29 GMT
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petcher@wuphys.wustl.edu (Donald N. Petcher) writes:

>I myself have a NeXTstation, and an Atari ST, and when I format an IBM 
>compatible 720K MS-DOS disk on the Atari, the NeXT seems to have no 
>problem reading it. However, if I write anything on the disk with the 
>NeXT, and then try to get the Atari to read it, it always acts as if the 
>disk is damaged and the files are unreadable. 

I have had the same problem, but with swapping between a NeXT and a Mac SE/30
with a superdrive.  If I go from the Mac to the NeXT, everything works just 
fine.  The NeXT reads the MS-DOS disk without any complaints.  But if I write
a file on that same disk using the NeXT, I can't read it on the Mac.  It tells
me that the disk is damaged.  What gives?

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