Re: Atari ST disks <-------> IBM DOS disks ?

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From: Michael Schuster
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 15:05

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In article <10880@chalmers.se> dxper@dtek.chalmers.se (Per Anders Olausson) writes:
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>  What about the "ST harddisk layout"...is it the same as the one used on
>IBM-compatible systems? Can I eg. move a ST formatted harddisk over to a PC
>without having to reformat it?

I tried that long ago. The sectors are readable, but the partition table
is not valid for MSDOS. However pc-ditto, a (now defunct) XT emulator
for the Atari, was able to read/write a hard disk on an ST machine.


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From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
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Subject: Re: Atari ST disks <-------> IBM DOS disks ?
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Date: 8 Apr 92 15:05:53 GMT
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