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From: geof@imagen.UUCP (Geoffrey Cooper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: MS-DOS format disks on DN3000
Keywords: can I do it?  have you done it?
Message-ID: <1757@imagen.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 88 21:23:31 GMT
Organization: IMAGEN Corporation, Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101
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I just got a DN3000 beast with a floppy drive in it.  Directly above it
is my PC-AT.  The floppies look pretty similar.

Can I write data on one machine and read it on the other?  There appear
to be formatting problems with making this work.  Where can I get the
details of what the apollo is doing or modify the particulars?  If you
want to yell at me about documentation, go ahead (which of the
bookshelf of manuals applies)?  Can I get at the raw drive?  Has anyone
done this?

I have a package that is designed to read/write MS-DOS floppies from a
UNIX system.  I'd like to port it to my DN3000.  Anyone done this?

By the way, this is obvious.  Will apollo support it in the future?

- Geof
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