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From: costello@eplrx7.UUCP (costello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Pcpatch
Message-ID: <189@eplrx7.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 89 14:28:05 GMT
References: <9525@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>
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From article <9525@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, by amiga@athena.mit.edu (MITAUG Staff):
> I've been having problems with Pcpatch and the pccopy/pcformat
> utilities.  On the msdos machine I formated (360K) a double
> sided/density disk and copied a bunch of files there.  When I use
> pcpatch to read the disk it seems to get the first 3K or so and then
> reads a bunch of garbage.  I also tried using pcformat with the patch
> and it fails claiming the 3.5in disk cannot be formatted.
> Any suggestions?
> 
> 
> Thanx
> 
> Ric Carreras
> 
> ARPA: carreras@lees.mit.edu
> bix: carreras

	I've had limited success using the PC3.5 patch.  However, the only way
I've ever gotten it to work was by formatting the DOS disk on the Amiga.  When
I tried to use disks formatted on the MessyDos machine, PCcopy would grind 
and grind but find no files.  The MessyDos machine appears to have no problems
reading the Amiga formatted disks though.  This is on a PS/2-80, Dos 3.3.

Tim Costello
...udel!eplrx7!costello



	Oh yeah, I've never tried Dos-2-Dos, the need is not that great.







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