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From: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: MS-DOS format disks on DN3000
Keywords: can I do it?  have you done it?
Message-ID: <545@stag.UUCP>
Date: 1 Aug 88 13:13:16 GMT
References: <1757@imagen.UUCP>
Reply-To: trb@stag.UUCP ( Todd Burkey )
Organization: Mindtools ST Access Group, Plymouth, MN
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In article <1757@imagen.UUCP> geof@imagen.UUCP (Geoffrey Cooper) writes:
>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

My Symmetric has a little program on it that allows me to read (and
copy) from 360K IBM PC disks...even though it's default way of looking
at a disk is 80 tracks, 10 sectors/track, 1024 bytes/sector. So it is
probably possible on the Apollo as well.

>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?

If this is PD, please either post it to the net or mail me a copy...I
would like to see what is involved in writing a PC floppy diskette.
The trick isn't actually involved in writing out the 512 byte sectors,
or whatever it is on the PC, but in constructing the two images of the
FAT table, zeroing and filling in the boot sector appropriately, and
getting the files onto the correct sectors. (I use an Atari ST, which
has the same floppy disk structure as the IBM PC, so I am also
interested in writing to quad density disks...)

  Thanks,
    -Todd Burkey        "A member of STdNet-The ST developers' Network"
     trb@stag.UUCP       ->use UUMAIL...full routing UUCP on the ST<-