Don Withey@UDEL.EDU, (09/27/88)
I snatched the PcPatch from swan.ulowell.edu (ftp), compiled it with Lattice
4.01, and it worked great. I just finished copying 'downloading?' a very
large backlog of amiga stuff, and it worked without any problem. I used
the 360k format on the 3.5" disks. A bit of a waste, but it's much better
than spending $55.00 for Dos-to-Dos... (besides, we already knew that
IBMs were wasteful ;-)
I'll be happy to provide the uuencoded executeables to the needy...
Donamiga@athena.mit.edu (MITAUG Staff) (03/01/89)
I've been having problems with Pcpatch and the pccopy/pcformat utilities. On the msdos machine I formated (360K) a double sided/density disk and copied a bunch of files there. When I use pcpatch to read the disk it seems to get the first 3K or so and then reads a bunch of garbage. I also tried using pcformat with the patch and it fails claiming the 3.5in disk cannot be formatted. I suspect that I should be using a different density disk but if so which one? Also, I tried DOStoDOS with 2 different msdos disks and it failed at about the same place as pcpatch did. Any suggestions? Thanx Ric Carreras ARPA: carreras@lees.mit.edu bix: carreras
costello@eplrx7.UUCP (costello) (03/01/89)
From article <9525@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU>, by amiga@athena.mit.edu (MITAUG Staff): > I've been having problems with Pcpatch and the pccopy/pcformat > utilities. On the msdos machine I formated (360K) a double > sided/density disk and copied a bunch of files there. When I use > pcpatch to read the disk it seems to get the first 3K or so and then > reads a bunch of garbage. I also tried using pcformat with the patch > and it fails claiming the 3.5in disk cannot be formatted. > Any suggestions? > > > Thanx > > Ric Carreras > > ARPA: carreras@lees.mit.edu > bix: carreras I've had limited success using the PC3.5 patch. However, the only way I've ever gotten it to work was by formatting the DOS disk on the Amiga. When I tried to use disks formatted on the MessyDos machine, PCcopy would grind and grind but find no files. The MessyDos machine appears to have no problems reading the Amiga formatted disks though. This is on a PS/2-80, Dos 3.3. Tim Costello ...udel!eplrx7!costello Oh yeah, I've never tried Dos-2-Dos, the need is not that great. --