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- From: echong@porpoise.ecn.purdue.edu (Edwin Chong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Writing MAC-readable floppies from Sparcstation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.231921.2268@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 23:19:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.154105.2005@erg.sri.com> <1992Aug20.180605.23085@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Aug20.224744.11647@access.usask.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug20.224744.11647@access.usask.ca> reid@skorpio.Usask.ca (Irving Reid) writes:
- >
- >Sparcs will read and write the same physical format as MS-DOS and Mac
- >FDHD drives (same track and sector layout, etc.). What they don't do
- >is put a valid DOS directory on the disk. AFE reads the DOS
- >directory from the disk; since there isn't one, AFE won't work.
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- I use "fdformat -d" on my Sparc to format diskettes, and it puts a
- valid DOS direcotry. I use "mwrite" and "mread" to write/read the
- diskettes. AFE works fine with this setup. I do it all the time.
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- echong@ecn.purdue.edu
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