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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!a218
- From: Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
- Subject: Re: DD vs HD floppies
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 01:41:37 GMT
- Message-ID: <19269@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Sender: news@deep.rsoft.bc.ca (Usenet)
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- In article <1993Jan5.161230.8635@city.cs> sheun@cs.city.ac.uk
- (Sheun Olatunbosun) writes:
-
- >I'm having a problem finding an IBM compatible machine which will accept
- >my DD (Double Density) floppies. All the I've seen PC's seem to have the HD
- >(High Density) drive as standard. I would really like to use the Amiga
- >CrossDOS facility for transferring work from the PC's at my university to my
- >A1200 at home.
-
- Every IBM-compatible machine I've seen can read and write DD
- disks in an HD drive. Machines with 1.2-megabyte 5 1/4-inch drives
- will read (and, within limits, write) 360K disks, and machines with
- 1.44-megabyte 3 1/2-inch drives will read and write 720K disks with
- no restrictions.
-
- I've been using CrossDOS regularly for the past couple of years
- to transfer files back and forth between my A1000 and various IBM
- clones. I've never had any problems. I've even gone so far as to
- download files from a BBS directly onto an IBM-format disk, or unzip
- IBM disks using PKAZip.
-
- Start with a 3 1/2-inch DD disk (don't use an HD disk!) and
- format it on an IBM clone with the /F:720 parameter. (I've not had
- as much luck formatting it on the Amiga through CrossDOS.) Once the
- disk has been formatted you can read and write it on either an IBM
- clone or an Amiga through CrossDOS, so you can take work both ways.
-
- Have fun...
-
- Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.bc.ca
- "It's lonely here, there's no one left to torture." -- Leonard Cohen
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