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Article #4676Re: ST->IBM PC, Floppies OK w/TOS 1.4
From: Harri Valkama LAKE
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1989 07:22
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1989 07:22
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In article <10053@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu) writes: >In article <18093@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> soohoo@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ken "nmi" Soohoo) writes: >Too bad PCs can't read disks formatted for 10 sectors per track. I thought >that was what the silly BIOS parameter block was for, but DOS is too stupid >to understand what's written there... But yeah, it's handy to get 720K at >a shot. I think there is one possible way worth trying this. There is a program called FDFORMT2 for PC that allows one format a disk with many various parameters. And this program comes with memory resident program that allows (certifies) a machine to read such disks. I have successfully format in my AT with this program normal 360K floppys to 832K and 1.2M disks to 1.49M. You can find this program with ftp from address below. -- Harri Valkama : email: hv@chyde.uwasa.fi (internet) Computer Centre, University of Vaasa : P.O.BOX 700 : voice: +358 61 248426 SF-65101 VAASA FINLAND : site: 128.214.12.3
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!bloom-beacon!eru!luth!sunic!tut!ra!chyde!hv From: hv@chyde.uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: ST->IBM PC, Floppies OK w/TOS 1.4 Keywords: TOS 1.4, IBM PC Floopy format Message-ID: <840@chyde.uwasa.fi> Date: 9 Oct 89 07:22:56 GMT References: <18093@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <10053@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Reply-To: hv@chyde.uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE) Organization: U of Vaasa, Finland Lines: 20