grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham Thomas) (05/25/90)
From article <1758@engage.enet.dec.com>, by wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace): > > In article <721@zinn.MV.COM>, kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal) writes... >>Is there an easily-obtainable, well-regarded program >>that will allow me to format DSDD disks for the IBM PC on my Atari? > I use DCFORMAT and have read other people having good results with IBMFMT (not > sure of the spelling). > One thing to beware - if you choose the 'MS-DOS Bootsector' option in DC Format, be careful when using disks formatted in this way on the ST. The ST will think all the disks have the same serial number, which could lead to FAT corruption. (This applies to all disks formatted on PCs & clones too - where the ST wants to see a serial number, IBMs etc. put the DOS version number.) DC Format WITHOUT the MS-DOS bootsector option will format the disk in a way which many PCs can read, as will NeoDesk, TOS 1.4 and no doubt many other formatters. If you really need all the MS-DOS bootsector junk, Moshe Braner's IBMFMT will put it on the disk for you AND will write a random serial number in the correct place (make sure you have version 1.1 or higher - version 1.0 left the DOS version number in.) Graham -- Graham Thomas, SPRU, Mantell Building, U of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RF, UK JANET: grahamt@uk.ac.sussex.syma EARN/BITNET: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk ARPA: grahamt%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk UUCP: grahamt@syma.uucp Phone: +44 273 686758 Fax: +44 273 685865
kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal) (05/29/90)
Sounds like IBMFMT is the one I need.
A big "THANK YOU" to all of you who sent mail and posted notes
no this question. I'm glad I asked, because I had been formatting
my disks on a PC, which works, but as a couple of people have noted,
this may cause me trouble when I don't pay attention. By using IBMFMT,
I will be able to avoid this horror.
-- Kenn Goutal
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+-----------------------------------------------------------+SA44@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Kevin Maguire) (05/30/90)
In article <1758@engage.enet.dec.com>, wallace@oldtmr.enet.dec.com (Ray Wallace) says: > >In article <721@zinn.MV.COM>, kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal) writes... >>Is there an easily-obtainable, well-regarded program >>that will allow me to format DSDD disks for the IBM PC on my Atari? >I use DCFORMAT and have read other people having good results with IBMFMT (not >sure of the spelling). I've used DCFORMAT and the disks produced are readable by the MSDOS 3.3 PC's around here but none of them will write to the disks. I just copy the boot sector (of a disk that has been formatted on a PC with MSDOS 3.3) onto the newly ST desktop formatted disk (altering the serial number of course). THis is the only way I've found that produces MSDOS 3.3 writable disks. Kevin Maguire Nsfnet : sa44%liv.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Uucp : ...!mcsun!ukc!liv-ib!sa44