| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1433 |
| Total number of notes: | 10312 |
Is there any software available for copying files from a 3.5" drive to
a 5.25" drive which has been formatted with DOS?
I recently purchased an IB 5.25 drive & am aware of IB copy for 21.95.
Before I purchase it, I wanted to make sure there wasn't some PD
program already available.
Carl.
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| 546.1 | WHy not TOS? | UKCSSE::KEANE | Mon Jul 24 1989 10:35 | 11 | |
Hi carl,
Whats wrong with using TOS?
I thought that the disk structures were compatible, oh oh, I just
thought, is your 5 1/4 40 track?. I dont know whether it will work 80
to 40 track,
There is a PD proggy to put an IBM block zero on disks something to do
with serial numbers, so that the PC can read them, otherwise you have to
format on an PC, to use on the ST.
Pat.
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| 546.2 | 40 track, 360k drive | PEOVAX::LEWIS | RONCO makes the best board popper... | Mon Jul 24 1989 12:14 | 8 |
Pat,
My 5.25 drive is 40 track, 360k. The problem I'm having is trying to
copy files from a TOS disk to the IBM formatted disk. It seems to copy
the file, then gives me an error message that drive B is not
responding.
Carl.
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| 546.3 | Problem resolved! | PEOVAX::LEWIS | RONCO makes the best board popper... | Tue Jul 25 1989 11:36 | 28 |
Last night I discovered if I boot up using the utility & formatter
disk that was supplied with my IB drive, I can copy my files (one at a
time) from the 3.5 TOS disk to my IB 5.25 360k DOS disk without any
error.
The disk I refer to must be modifying GEM when I boot it. The
following is a list of the files on it:
Folders: 2 Files: 8
AUTO (folder)
FSELV60.PRG RESM.PRG
DOCFILES (folder)
AUTOSORT.DOC FORMATER.DOC FSELV60.DOC
Top level directory:
AUTO
AUTOSORT.PRG
DESKTOP.INF
DOCFILES
FMT.PRG
Carl.
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| 546.4 | You need to slow the step rate | OLDTMR::WALLACE | Tue Aug 08 1989 14:36 | 6 | |
To use the 5.25 disk drive you need to slow the step rate down for
drive B:. There are a few PD programs around that will do this for you
but it sounds like you already have such a program on your utilities
disk (must be RESM.PRG in the auto folder).
Ray
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