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From: mx8@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: HELP!
Message-ID: <1991May19.233553.4927@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 03:35:53 GMT
References: <1991May18.210345.4918@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <sticht.6340@edith.UUCP>
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In article <sticht.6340@edith.UUCP>,
sticht@edith.UUCP (Stefan Sticht) writes: 
>>In article <1991May18.210345.4918@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> mx8@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
>>                   -Amiga drives do not work as 720K drives in IBM mode, right?
> You  can  use  CrossDOS  (commercial)  or MSH (Fish-Disks) to read and
> write  720k  MS-DOS  disks  on  the Amiga side and use ARead/AWrite or
> ATCopy   (Fish-Disks)   to   exchange  the  files  between  Amiga  and
> Bridgeboard.   This  would  be cheaper than buying an additional drive
> for the bridgeboard.
> 
> Stefan Sticht

    Yeah, but you'd have a 720K cap (couldn't copy files greater than 720K),
and you couldn't copy files directly to the hard drive.  You also couldn't 
use the drives for hard drive backups that do non-DOS storage (like PC-Tools). 
This could be a potential problem for manipulating large amounts of IBM data, 
as in software installation of Word Perfect..