On Tue, 01 Oct 2013, Holger Granholm wrote to Mark Lewis:   
      
    HG> My CP/M floppies from a Triumph Adler CP/M machine can not be read    
    HG> directly in a DOS environment but with the aid of a translation   
      
   ml>not even with appropriat config.sys entries specifying the sector    
   ml>count and similar options? at one time, years ago, my floppy drive    
   ml>was known by 4 or 5 drive letters... A was normal, B was my second   
   ml>floppy, C, D, E and maybe F were all A with different parameters for   
   ml>reading other disk formats...   
      
    HG> I did never have the need to dig that deep. The translation    
    HG> program worked its magic.   
      
   yeah, we did this because it was cheaper than buying a translation program and   
   it was already built into the system... the thing is that many did not   
   document all settings... i happened to have found out about it in an old   
   Kaypro manual and it worked on all subsequent DOSes that i tried it on ;)   
      
   FWIW: at one time, a friend did purchase a translation program for this   
   task... they spent $150US or more on the software for the one-time job of   
   copying data from five disks... then they never even used the data they had   
   copied... they recreated it, more than once... i never did get a good reason   
   for having recreated it when i asked [shrug]   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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