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From: bliv@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jim "Bliv" Haleblian)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: transferring files from ibm-pc to A
Message-ID: <2965@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 19-Aug-86 17:51:03 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug 19 17:51:03 1986
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References: <156@uwmacc.UUCP> <93500023@convex>
Organization: M.I.T. EE/CS Computer Facility, Cambridge MA
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Summary: MS-DOS 3.5" Disks and the Transformer...

In article <93500023@convex>, danny@convex.UUCP writes:
> Well, I remember someone from C-A talking about multiple speeds/formats 
> possible with the drives.  This should make it POSSIBLE (not necessarily
> easy) to read and write to IBM 3.5" disks.  This would be a necessity for
> the Sidecar, I mean hey, if IBM uses 3.5" and they can be read, why not
> make use of that drive.  This would help make the Sidecar more cost
> effective (would anyone from C-A like to comment on this).
> 
> Dan Wallach
> ...!ihnp4!convex!danny

From personal experience (being one of the [groan] persons who bought
Transformer), it is indeed possible to make the Amiga 3.5" read MS-DOS
diskettes.  I booted up DG-DOS and formatted a disk out my internal drive,
and, lo and behold, I got a 720K diskette!

Now my personal question:
	I tried to figure out just how this must have been written by 
attempting to read some of the sectors off the disk in AmigaDOS with
disked.  Of course, I lost big.
	Does anybody know how to read a MS-DOS disk out the 3.5" drive?
It seems possible that the driver for the disk may be changed by
Transformer.  I would really like to write the file conversion utility
from IBM to AmigaDOS that the Transformer package failed to supply..

					- Jim Haleblian
					mit-eddie!bliv