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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: LoadWB on September 27, 2008, 04:00:57 PM
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I'm setting up a massive conversion process for a customer who has presented me with four boxes of disks covering various formats of 5.25" and 3.5" (SS/SD to HD.) To do this I decided I would set up my 2000 with HD and DD floppy drives, as well as a 1020 and a 5.25" which I *believe* can read HD 5.25 (1.2MB).
In the boxes I found several original Microsoft DMF (distribution media format) 1.7MB floppies with Windows and Office software. Would the Amiga read them? My OS3.9 1200 has a HD floppy in it, so I fired it up, threw in a floppy, and sure enough, pc0: shows a 1680k floppy 100% full, and the cab file on the floppy copied to RAM: with no problem.
A quick search did not turn up any information on Amiga and DMF, so I thought I'd make a quick post about it. Yes, the Amiga can read a DMF formatted floppy with CrossDOS.
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The Amiga can't read 1.2 MB 5.25" disks. You'd need a Catweazle for that, or just use a PeeCee.
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Zac67 wrote:
The Amiga can't read 1.2 MB 5.25" disks. You'd need a Catweazle for that, or just use a PeeCee.
That sucks. I may have to use a PC for those floppies, but I'm still on for the other formats. I want to be able to script the whole process and take advantage of the disk change notification so I don't have to interact with the machine, just swap floppies. Being able to do four disks at a time would be a considerable plus.
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Here I thought the only way to do this was to fire up pc-task w/ minimal dos installatin and use copytoa.exe :lol: wish I knew this about 2 months ago when I had a siliar problem! (PC-Task is slooooow)