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[Roger Merchberger]

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:
> > 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

Yes...

>  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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