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From: bruce@ektools.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: reading IBM-PC floppies.
Message-ID: <670@ektools.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 17:00:27 EDT
Article-I.D.: ektools.670
Posted: Wed May 20 17:00:27 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 22-May-87 01:28:06 EDT
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Reply-To: bruce@ektools.UUCP (Bruce D. Nelson (408))
Organization: Eastman Kodak, Dept. 47, Rochester NY
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Keywords: IBM-PC, Atari-ST, floppies

If you format the 3.5 disk with MS-DOS 3.2 on the IBM (or clone), then
the ST will read/write the disk just dandy. If you use the default formatter
on the ST, MS-DOS won't believe the boot record (!), and won't be able to
read the disk. There is (are) one or more formatting programs for the ST
which format the disk, and then write an MS-DOS style track 0 which the IBM
will then accept. Note that the ST needs double sided drives.

My favorite method, though, is to keep an empty MS-DOS formatted disk sitting
around and doing a disk copy from it whenever I need a disk to go to the IBM.

Bruce D. Nelson, Sr. Appl. Analyst: Software Maint., Tech. Support Svcs.
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, 901 Elmgrove Rd., Rochester, NY 14650, (716)726-7890
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