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Article #30529Re: How compatible are MS-DOS and TOS disks, REALLY?
From: Dave Clemans
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1988 18:58
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1988 18:58
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there are two areas to watch out for in moving floppies between
the ST and MS-DOS systems:
1. software
there are some slight incompatibilities between the systems
in boot-block and bpb handling; basically the ST sets the minimum
amount of information necessary, which doesn't match what some
MS-DOS drivers want
2. hardware
formatting/writing done on the ST with it's Western Digital
177x controller chip is not necessarily compatible with the
controller chips used on MS-DOS boxes; this is a case where it
might work, and again it might not
dgc
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!dclemans From: dclemans@mntgfx.mentor.com (Dave Clemans) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: How compatible are MS-DOS and TOS disks, REALLY? Message-ID: <1988Feb9.105900.7658@mntgfx.mentor.com> Date: 9 Feb 88 18:58:56 GMT References: <8802051651.AA00683@decwrl.dec.com> Organization: Mentor Graphics Corporation, Beaverton Oregon Lines: 16