danny@convex.UUCP (08/15/86)
[ Oh great lineater! Pass me by in your eternal hauntings... ] Well, I remember someone from C-A talking about multiple speeds/formats possible with the drives. This should make it POSSIBLE (not necessarily easy) to read and write to IBM 3.5" disks. This would be a necessity for the Sidecar, I mean hey, if IBM uses 3.5" and they can be read, why not make use of that drive. This would help make the Sidecar more cost effective (would anyone from C-A like to comment on this). Dan Wallach ...!ihnp4!convex!danny
bliv@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Jim "Bliv" Haleblian) (08/20/86)
In article <93500023@convex>, danny@convex.UUCP writes: > Well, I remember someone from C-A talking about multiple speeds/formats > possible with the drives. This should make it POSSIBLE (not necessarily > easy) to read and write to IBM 3.5" disks. This would be a necessity for > the Sidecar, I mean hey, if IBM uses 3.5" and they can be read, why not > make use of that drive. This would help make the Sidecar more cost > effective (would anyone from C-A like to comment on this). > > Dan Wallach > ...!ihnp4!convex!danny From personal experience (being one of the [groan] persons who bought Transformer), it is indeed possible to make the Amiga 3.5" read MS-DOS diskettes. I booted up DG-DOS and formatted a disk out my internal drive, and, lo and behold, I got a 720K diskette! Now my personal question: I tried to figure out just how this must have been written by attempting to read some of the sectors off the disk in AmigaDOS with disked. Of course, I lost big. Does anybody know how to read a MS-DOS disk out the 3.5" drive? It seems possible that the driver for the disk may be changed by Transformer. I would really like to write the file conversion utility from IBM to AmigaDOS that the Transformer package failed to supply.. - Jim Haleblian mit-eddie!bliv