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From: krowitz@RICHTER.MIT.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  Reading PC floppies on Apollos
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Date: 20 Feb 89 22:49:53 GMT
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I believe that the PC emulator has it's own GPIO driver for the
floppy disk. There is an outline of a device driver for the floppy
disk that reads MS DOS floppies. I think I saw it in the examples
for GPIO in the /domain_examples directory. The example did *not*
give you access to the files on the floppy, it just read off all of
the blocks into a file on the Apollo disk (it was after all, just
a example of how to access the hardware). I believe that there is
a program to decode MS DOS directories posted to comp.unix.sources
on UUNET.UU.NET which you can get from their archives. Put these
two together, and you can probably come up with a program to read
MS DOS floppies with the Apollo floppy disk drive.


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