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- From: kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
- Subject: Re: Writing MAC-readable floppies from Sparcstation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.095243.21744@rhrk.uni-kl.de>
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- Reply-To: kemper@millelac.rhrk.uni-kl.de (Michael Kemper [Informatik])
- Organization: University of Kaiserslautern (Germany)
- References: <1992Aug20.154105.2005@erg.sri.com> <1992Aug20.180605.23085@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Aug20.224744.11647@access.usask.ca> <1992Aug20.231921.2268@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 09:52:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.231921.2268@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
- echong@porpoise.ecn.purdue.edu (Edwin Chong) writes:
- |>In article <1992Aug20.224744.11647@access.usask.ca>
- reid@skorpio.Usask.ca (Irving Reid) writes:
- |>>
- |>>Sparcs will read and write the same physical format as MS-DOS and Mac
- |>>FDHD drives (same track and sector layout, etc.). What they don't do
- |>>is put a valid DOS directory on the disk. AFE reads the DOS
- |>>directory from the disk; since there isn't one, AFE won't work.
- |>
- |>I use "fdformat -d" on my Sparc to format diskettes, and it puts a
- |>valid DOS direcotry. I use "mwrite" and "mread" to write/read the
- |>diskettes. AFE works fine with this setup. I do it all the time.
- |>
- |>echong@ecn.purdue.edu
-
- I use fdformat too, but write to the disk with mcopy (from the mtools
- package) but I can't copy the files to my mac hard disk with PC
- Exchange, although the DOS disk is correctly mounted.
-
- Any suggestions?
-
- |\/|ichael |<emper +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
- University of Kaiserslautern + Must I say this? +
- Germany + This is my own personal opinion... +
- kemper@rhrk.uni-kl.de +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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