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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
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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