I discovered
if you wanna use xp it can be handy to
get a life-cd or bootable-cd from a good linux distro. gentoo, it can make your pc work
even without harddisk Leaving your xp intact.
I also found out
Reading ST disks with Mandrake Linux 9.1 created with Fast Copy Pro on the atari ST
If you want to read an write to stdisks with has different size as normal you must read this document. [http://www.stack.nl/~chemmad/Tekstbestand]
Click here for reading more about atari disks with strange sizes like 820 kbyte. Or create a .st file
download some st images here Visit MSA -convertor website if you have a windows machine and want to convert .st to .msa
http://pageperso.aol.fr/zorg63/index-uk.html
Summary.
convert msa to st. with a convertor programmn
steem can do this jop also for you
put the LiveCD in you cdrom and boot into linux from cd.
type at command line:
dd if=file.st of=/dev/fd0u720 count=1 bs720k
this is similar as makedisk.