toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz (Toivo Pedaste) (11/23/89)
myb100@csc.anu.oz writes: >I'd like to know about this too - kermiting takes a _long_ time and is >not CPU friendly. Also, how do you write the 720k disks in the first place ? >Using a CrossDos type of program on both machines ? I read them using the crossdos demo. The ones I've used I've formated on the amiga using PCpatch from a fish disk (this is a program that patches the CBM utilities for writing 5 1/4 inch IBM floppies to use the normal amiga floppy drive). Reading and writing on the SPARCstation was done using something called mdtools which I think are from comp.sources.unix. They allow a unix system to read and write IBM flopies (if they have a drive of course). -- Toivo Pedaste ACSNET: toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz
myb100@csc.anu.oz (11/23/89)
In article <1989Nov22.185304.23611@athena.mit.edu>, chekmate@athena.mit.edu (Adam Kao) writes: > In article <1989Nov22.015959.1279@uniwa.uwa.oz> toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz (Toivo Pedaste) writes: > >>I've had no problem with writing 720k disks on a SPARCstation for reading >>on the amiga. I did originally format them on the amiga. >>-- >> Toivo Pedaste ACSNET: toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz > > I didn't know the amiga could read 720k disks. Do you have a special > drive? Did you have to use any special software? > I'd like to know about this too - kermiting takes a _long_ time and is not CPU friendly. Also, how do you write the 720k disks in the first place ? Using a CrossDos type of program on both machines ? > > Any help is greatly appreciated. Send email and save bandwidth! > ^^^^ ditto NO - don't consider it wasted badwidth, there is at least one other interested person out here. > Adam Kao > chekmate@athena.mit.edu Markus Buchhorn Mt Stromlo Observatory, Canberra, Australia markus@mso.anu.oz.au -or- nssdca::psi%mssso::markus