Subject: Re: accessing non-DOS diskette formats
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/10/2002 16:45:55
Hi,

On 01/10/2002 09:04:02 AM CET Wojciech Puchar wrote:
>
>is it possible to read atari recorded 5.25" disks (160kB) with that?
>it does use FAT filesystem but don't know what about sector layout.

Assuming you mean Atari ST...

I think they have the same format as on PC, so 160kB should be
512 bytes per sector, 8 sectors per track, 40 tracks, 1 side.

Yes, you can read this, and if they use FAT, you can use mtools to get
at the files.

regards,
chris