This is a situation where the Amiga can read DOS floppy's, but not the other way around. So you can insert a dos formatted disk into an Amiga drive, transfer a text file to the disk, and open it on a Windows Machine.
> I thought the Amiga's used that crazy formatting method that the > Apples were also culpable of? Oddball sector sizes or some > nonsense... > > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:33 PM, David Nelson <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I'm kinda rusty on floppy disks but I think the 800k issue is something >> you >> can solve by putting a piece of tape over the corner hole... not the >> read-write lock, but the other one. >> Or is this a different issue than the one I'm remembering?... :) >> -David >> >> From: Joseph Weston Morgan <[email protected]> >> Reply To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> >> To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group <[email protected]> >> Date: Monday, May 23, 2011 12:04:24 PM >> Subject: [Eug-lug] floppy disk >> >> >> >> I cannot figure out how to format a floppy disk that is both acceptable >> to either XP, or Linux and Amiga. There are still a few things to get >> off of the old Amiga 500, but the floppies need to be formated to at >> most 880kb and I cannot figure out how to dumb the format command down >> to this level. >> >> Wes >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EUGLUG mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug >> >> > > > > -- > Andrew Jackman > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
