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From: moore@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Double-sided disks for the Rainbow
Summary: it is possible to read/write rainbow disks on an AT with 1.2MB drive
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Date: 23 Aug 88 09:11:06 GMT
Reply-To: moore@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
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One ``solution'' to not being able to read PC double sided disks on a Rainbow
might be to use a special device driver on a PC/AT that can read/write
Rainbow disks.  This is possible since the ``high capacity'' AT drive 
is a 96 track/inch drive. (like the Rainbow uses but also double sided).

I have seen such a driver floating around on the net somewhere, but
I don't remember where.  Anyone care to refresh my memory?

This is probably an optimal solution to the floppy-disk based file transfer
problem if you just want to move files back and forth between the two
environments.  It doesn't help a bit, though, if you have a bunch of
double-sided IBM PC floppies with no machine to read them on.  I have the
opposite problem -- lots of Rainbow floppies with no Rainbow handy.

-- 
Keith Moore
UT Computer Science Dept.	Internet/CSnet: moore@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu
107 Ayres Hall, UT Campus	BITNET: moore@utkcs1
Knoxville Tennessee 37996-1301	Telephone: +1 615 974 0822