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From: cantrell@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Keith Cantrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Reading PC floppies on Apollos
Message-ID: <7249@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 20 Feb 89 16:10:51 GMT
References: <8902190215.AA00586@atlantis>
Reply-To: cantrell@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Keith Cantrell)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <8902190215.AA00586@atlantis> lnz@LUCID.COM (Leonard N. Zubkoff) writes:
>The problem with reading PC formatted floppies on the Apollo is that, at least
>when I last asked Apollo, the Apollo device driver will only deal with 1024
>byte sectors on the floppy, which is what DOmain/OS needs.  Unfortunately, the
>PC world is based on 512 byte sectors.  Thus one would need a special device
>driver that talked to the disk controller directly in order to read PC floppies.
>
This has got to be bullsh*t.  Apollo has a pc emulator (i.e. solfware only) that
will run on a DN3000 and can read and write pc disks.  I used this solfware before,
it was too slow, but it did work.

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