10 Mar
2005
10 Mar
'05
4:07 p.m.
Rumor has it that Eric J Korpela may have mentioned these words:
On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 14:10:51 -0500, Curt @ Atari
Museum
<curt at atarimuseum.com> wrote:
Yes...
Yeah, I wouldn't up rather disappointed
myself as well... I bought the
ISA version and was hoping to eliminate the need to have to keep reading
ST formatted disks into my ST and null-modeming them over to my PC....
Huh? Atari ST disks use MFM encoding and a FAT file system.
Not quite. There are subtle differences that makes them "not quite compatible."
I can read and write them just fine on a PC.
If I format a floppy in my ST and save files to it, I can read it in my PC
without too many problems - however, files copied to the floppy from the PC
would quite often not read right in the ST. I don't know if it was
timing/interleave issues, or if there were bytes in the FAT which the ST
considered optional that the PC required (or vice versa)...
At least that's by my recollection... I do know that I did have some
troubles trying to move files to and fro via floppy-based sneakernet.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
--
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What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????