hpasanen@niksula.hut.fi (Harri Pasanen) (06/26/90)
A simple question that surely has come up before, my apologies:
Is it possible to read/write Atari 1040STE diskettes with IBM PS/2?
- " - IBM PS/2 - " - Atari?
If so, which programs do I need and how is it done?
Please email,
Thank's
Harri Pasanenlarserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) (07/10/90)
Atari ST 720K disks and IBM 720K disk are 99% identical... Some IBM don't read disks formatted on TOS 1.2 and older so format the disk on the IBM if possible.... Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
rode@uniol.UUCP (Dirk Rode) (07/10/90)
Hello, hpasanen@niksula.hut.fi (Harri Pasanen) writes: >A simple question that surely has come up before, my apologies: >Is it possible to read/write Atari 1040STE diskettes with IBM PS/2? Only when formated under TOS 1.4 or with a special program writing an IBM header to the boot block of the Disk. > - " - IBM PS/2 - " - Atari? When formated to 720k (80 Tracks, 9 Sectors) no problem. mfG Diro -- * Dirk Rode * UUCP: ...!unido!uniol!rode * * Zwischenahner Str. 64 * Bitnet: 077481@Doluni1.Bitnet * * 2910 Howiek * Nickname: Waldi * * Arbeitsgruppe Rechnerbetrieb Informatik der * * Universitaet Oldenburg (FB 10 - ARBI) *
csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) (07/11/90)
hpasanen@niksula.hut.fi (Harri Pasanen) writes: >Is it possible to read/write Atari 1040STE diskettes with IBM PS/2? > - " - IBM PS/2 - " - Atari? >If so, which programs do I need and how is it done? You don't need anything but the DESKTOP formatter if you own a STE. TOS 1.4 and TOS 1.6 finally have a completely DOS-compatible disk format. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------
rode@uniol.UUCP (Dirk Rode) (07/12/90)
Moin, csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: >>If so, which programs do I need and how is it done? >You don't need anything but the DESKTOP formatter if you own a STE. >TOS 1.4 and TOS 1.6 finally have a completely DOS-compatible disk format. I don't think so, look at disk free: Atari says something about 726016 Bytes, an IBM says something about 728112 Bytes free. But the new TOS versions - thats correct - make an IBM like Bootsector. If you want to have 100% IBM Disks, you can use Fcopy 3.0. mfG Waldi -- * Dirk Rode * UUCP: ...!unido!uniol!rode * * Zwischenahner Str. 64 * Bitnet: 077481@Doluni1.Bitnet * * 2910 Howiek * Nickname: Waldi * * Arbeitsgruppe Rechnerbetrieb Informatik der * * Universitaet Oldenburg (FB 10 - ARBI) *
fischer-michael@CS.YALE.EDU (Michael Fischer) (07/13/90)
In article <3065@uniol.UUCP> rode@uniol.UUCP (Dirk Rode) writes: >Moin, > >csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: > >>>If so, which programs do I need and how is it done? >>You don't need anything but the DESKTOP formatter if you own a STE. >>TOS 1.4 and TOS 1.6 finally have a completely DOS-compatible disk format. > I don't think so, look at disk free: Atari says something about 726016 >Bytes, an IBM says something about 728112 Bytes free. But the new TOS >versions - thats correct - make an IBM like Bootsector. TOS won't write the last two clusters of a disk---thinks they are always in use. It can read them however. This was a bug in TOS 1.0 that has been preserved for compatibility. However, that does not imply that the disk format is incompatible. As far as I know, disks formatted by the TOS 1.4 desktop formatter are completely compatible with IBM. It's just that TOS 1.4 can't fill them completely. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: <fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu> | | Bitnet: <fischer-michael@yalecs.bitnet> | | UUCP: <fischer-michael@yale.UUCP> | ==================================================
ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (07/24/90)
In article <2982@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) writes: | hpasanen@niksula.hut.fi (Harri Pasanen) writes: | | >Is it possible to read/write Atari 1040STE diskettes with IBM PS/2? | > - " - IBM PS/2 - " - Atari? | | >If so, which programs do I need and how is it done? | You don't need anything but the DESKTOP formatter if you own a STE. | TOS 1.4 and TOS 1.6 finally have a completely DOS-compatible disk format. For those who don't have either of these newer TOS-ups (:-) try ps2format which was posted sometime ago. It claims PS/2 compatibility. I've used it with straight old MS-DOS machines. Hope that this helps. Cheers, -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud new owner of a Mega 4 ST. What's a Blitter?