silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (10/09/89)
Lars-Erik Osterud recently pointed out that you can use
Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS to read normal ST disks on a PC.
This works fine, and I just wanted to add a comment on how bright the
software is -- my NEC Ultralite installs a RAMdisk as drive C, and the
driver routine (which normally creates logical drives C and D) spots
this and creates logical drives D and E as ST equivalents to A and B.
There is a noticable change in performance, since if I run DIR B: on a
PC disk the display scrolls smoothly, but if I run DIR E: on an ST disk
(in the same drive) the display jerks by. But that is pretty minor I
suspect. I haven't yet tried editing an Atari WP file on a PC!
I'm a bit hesitant to try this trick on the monster I have at work,
a 386 with three floppy drives and five HD partitions -- will
PC_DDRVR.SYS duplicate all three drives, just the one 3-1/2" drive,
or what? Anyone have any ideas what the side effects might be?
--
Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division.
Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2
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Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNETkron%aiki@Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron) (10/10/89)
From article <1989Oct8.202742.10601@cs.dal.ca>, by silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert): > Lars-Erik Osterud recently pointed out that you can use > Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS to read normal ST disks on a PC. > -- > Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. > UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill > Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET How do you get pc_ddrvr.sys, is this sold as PC software or what ? Inquiring minds wanna know! Kenneth Kron ----- The opinions I expressed were mine, the opinions you formed are yours. kron@eng.sun.com
larserio@IFI.UIO.NO (LarsErikOsterud) (10/10/89)
I don't know any other way to get PC-DDRVR.SYS than to buy PC-Ditto or copy it from somebody that has PC-Ditto. Again this would be illegal (if somebody from Avant-Garde doesn't free PC_DDRVR.SYS from copyright) Lars-Erik / ABK-BBS +47 2132659 / ____ ______ ________________________ Osterud / larserio@ifi.uio.no / /___ / The norwegian ST __________/ ______________________/ ____/ / Klubben, user association
silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (10/10/89)
In article <126044@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> kron%aiki@Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron) writes: >From article <1989Oct8.202742.10601@cs.dal.ca>, by silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert): >> Lars-Erik Osterud recently pointed out that you can use >> Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS to read normal ST disks on a PC. > >How do you get pc_ddrvr.sys, is this sold as PC software or what ? > >Inquiring minds wanna know! It comes with PC Ditto. Whether they will sell it separately I don't know. Inquiring minds will have to write Avant-Garde. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bs%dalcs@dalac.BITNET
hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) (10/10/89)
In article <126044@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, kron%aiki@Sun.COM (Kenneth Kron) writes: > From article <1989Oct8.202742.10601@cs.dal.ca>, by silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert): > > Lars-Erik Osterud recently pointed out that you can use > > Avant-Garde's PC_DDRVR.SYS to read normal ST disks on a PC. > > How do you get pc_ddrvr.sys, is this sold as PC software or what ? pc_ddrvr.sys is a TSR program supplied with PC-Ditto to allow ATARI partitions D,E,F etc to be accessed from MS/DOS running under the emulater. It has no other magical properties. Howard C. Johnson ATT Bell Labs att!lzaz!hcj hcj@lzaz.att.com