Xref: utzoo comp.sys.cbm:1446 comp.sys.ibm.pc:16064 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!dogie!uwmcsd1!lakesys!rickm From: rickm@lakesys.UUCP (Rick) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: is it possible to read/write Commodore disks on an IBM PC? Keywords: disks read write commodore ibm Message-ID: <719@lakesys.UUCP> Date: 1 Jun 88 13:48:58 GMT References: <4760@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: rickm@lakesys.UUCP (Rick) Distribution: comp Organization: Lake Systems - Milwaukee, WI Lines: 21 In article <4760@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> andytoy@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Andy Toy, Applications Support Group) writes: >Does anyone have any software that will read/write/diskcopy/filecopy >commodore format floppies on an ibm pc? I want to download stuff >to a IBM PC and then write them to floppies that commodore drives >can read without getting someone else to download the stuff for me >since I don't have a modem for the commodore. I think what you need to find out is if your Commodore drive can read ibm formatted disks since the the ibm cannot read the commodore format. I hope someone will provide the answer to this since I have often wanted to read disks formated on my IBM PC-AT on my 1571 drive, but have been unsuccessful. Is there a way to get this done? How must the IBM disk be formatted for the 1571 to read it? I have heard that disks formatted on the AT cannot be read by the 1571 no matter how they are formatted, is this correct? rick