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Article #777Re: Atari ST disks <-------> IBM DOS disks ?
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Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 09:08
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1992 09:08
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This one takes me back a bit...
In article <1992Apr8.031153.12888@zooid.guild.org> marcelg@zooid.UUCP (Michel Goudeseune) writes:
>
>I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but the diskette formatting
>for ST computers and 720k IBM floppies is identical. The only
>problem I've found in the past is getting an IBM to read a diskette
>I formatted on my ST. If the IBM did the formatting, no problem.
>
The problem is that older versions of the Atari O.S. don't get the
boot-block quite right. Hence MS-DOS throws up if presented with a
floppy formatted on the ST. The other way round obviously works as
MS-DOS gets the format ``right'' by definition :-) There are (were?)
lots of P.D. formatters for the S.T. that get the boot-block right.
Andrew
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!ox-prg!news From: news@comlab.ox.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Atari ST disks <-------> IBM DOS disks ? Message-ID: <3262@inca.comlab.ox.ac.uk> Date: 9 Apr 92 09:08:10 GMT References: <1992Apr1.165548.1@galluk> <1992Apr8.031153.12888@zooid.guild.org> Sender: news@comlab.ox.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 22