[net.micro.amiga] transferring files from ibm-pc to A

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