Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ljdickey
From: ljdickey@watserv1.waterloo.edu (Lee Dickey)
Subject: Re: MSDOS formater
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.190425.3363@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1991Jan24.101341.1327@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 91 19:04:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jan24.101341.1327@urz.unibas.ch> hofer@urz.unibas.ch (Remo Hofer) writes:
>Is there a PD diskformater around, which produces real MSDOS disk, except
>that it puts in a serial number? I mean it should write a MSDOS bootsector
>(except serial number), a compatible media byte, the FAT and the root
>directory should have the same length and it should write the same number of
>FATs as on MSDOS disks. Is there such a beast around?


I looked recently at the code for "IBMFMT" by Moshe Braner.  If I
understand what is being asked, I think that this is exactly what Moshe
has done.  Both the  code and the program have been posted, so I think
you should find them both at "panarthea" and "terminator".  The site
"panarthea" is the one from which all our binaries and sources are
posted to the net, and it is a mail server.  The site "terminator" is
now becoming known as "atari.archive.umich.edu", and it is both a mail
and an ftp server.

Another program of the same nature is "ps2form".  I think that it is
about the same, putting in the random serial number and writing a
binary image of a DOS 3.3 boot sector.  There is some subtlety about
just what is done first that makes this different from "ibmfmt", but
the effect is the same.

Both of these program are free.

