forbus@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (10/29/86)
Well, I've lost every time I've tried taking a 360KB disk formatted for 360KB by an AT and trying to read it from a COMPAQ. Finally ended up making the appropriate cable made and using KERMIT to ship stuff between the machines. That works every time.
ddrex@gorgo.UUCP (10/30/86)
>The point of all this is that you don't NEED a special copy program. >If you want to copy from a 1.2Mb to a 360k (or vice versa), >the COPY command works fine. If you only have one drive, it still >doesn't matter since PC/MS-DOS checks the formatting before writing. >You can also use the DISKCOPY program, provided the diskettes are >formatted by the same version format program. You're lucky. I have not been so fortunate. The drives on my XT clone will sometimes read disks written on an AT, sometimes not. The clone is running PCDOS 3.1, which is what the AT was also running. I don't know if a special copy rpogram would help; I haven't tried it.