Date   : Wed, 14 Oct 1992 15:29:04 GMT
From   : dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!ifi!news@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Weber)
Subject: amstrad discs

In article <1992Oct13.151352.5017@lut.ac.uk> J.Hunter@lut.ac.uk (Jamie
Hunter) writes:
>Someone I know has fitted a 3.5" disk drive to an Amstrad cpm/w machine.
>The want to be able to read&write msdos disks.  What software is available
>for it?  I've got s/w that might be able to read/write the amstrad disks
>(yet to be tried), but not vice-versa.

Try formatting the 3.5" discs with the Amstrad as cpm/86 format
(this is possible if it is a CPC).
Else format the disc on a PC with fdformat with 8 sectors/40 tracks
(that makes cpm/86 format too).
Afterwards you can read the disc on a pc with a tool like 22nice
or zsim.

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Juergen G. Weber
Student am Institut fuer Informatik
Universitaet Stuttgart - Germany