Subject: Re: accessing non-DOS diskette formats
To: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
From: Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd@twofifty.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/10/2002 19:57:40
And my own odd question: has anyone found a way to read Japanese NEC-DOS
3.5" 1.2M floppies? My old Japanese DOS Toshiba is quite dead.
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Christian Groessler 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...
>
> Presumably, since the author said FAT filesystem. Atari 8-bits certainly
> don't use FAT (and have a very odd sector layout). :)
>
> : Yes, you can read this, and if they use FAT, you can use mtools to get
> : at the files.
>
> msdosfs should be perfectly capable of mounting it directly, too.
>
>
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