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- From: nerone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Michael Nerone)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Large file on MS-DOS disk?
- Message-ID: <NERONE.93Jan27064622@sylvester.cc.utexas.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 11:46:22 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.115815.21256@imada.ou.dk>
- Organization: The University of Texas at Austin
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- In-reply-to: breese@monet.imada.ou.dk's message of Wed, 27 Jan 1993 11:58:15 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.115815.21256@imada.ou.dk> breese@monet.imada.ou.dk (Bjorn Reese) writes:
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- > I've got two files which doesn't fit into my MS-DOS disks
- > (used for transportation between UNIX and my Amiga.) One
- > is packed with Lha and the other with Dms. Is there any
- > way that I can bring these files back home?
-
- Well you didn't say what machine you have, but this is a good opportunity
- to mention an oversight with the high density floppies and CrossDOS included
- with the A4000. This should also apply to 3000's with the high density
- drives.
-
- As supplied with WB 3.0, you can only read 720K IBM disks, even though you
- have a high-density drive. If, however, you double the mount entry for
- BlocksPerTrack from 9 to 18, you can suddenly read 1.44M disks. I've
- had no problems writing to same. There may be a reason they did this, but
- I haven't run into it.
-
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