"kosma@ALAN.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com (02/03/90)
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Date: Thu, 1 Feb 90 10:55 PST
From: Montgomery Kosma <kosma@ALAN.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com>
Subject: Re: SUN4<-> AMIGA
To: "Eagle::rsn%cartan.math.nd.edu"@Kahuna
cc: "eagle::amiga-relay%udel.edu"@Kahuna
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Date: Thu, 1-Feb-90 08:10:48-PST
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 90 10:51:00 EST
From: rsn@cartan.math.nd.edu (Ross Niebergall)
How does one create the necessary devices for the /dev directory on
the Sparcstation? I've had the necessary software for months, but
I'm missing the device drivers.
Thanks for any help.
rsn@ndmath
(this is cc-ed to comp.sys.amiga since I had so much trouble with this
too :-)
To use MTOOLS with the sparcstation, all I did was to change the FLOPPY
device to /dev/rfd0 and the 3.5" disk driver entry to /dev/rfd0 in the
msdos.h file (I think). Comment out the disk driver entries that are
not appropriate (i.e. the 5.25" disk drives). Then put in a formatted
disk and try to do "mdir /." which should work!
You might also need to "setenv MCWD /" to get it going.
I've had some trouble with getting segmentation faults when the default
directory it uses is invalid, but otherwise it's been working.
CROSSDOS on the other hand does not seem to be working well. Very often
I get this "error 4" requester when trying to read files off the msdos
disk di0:. With several retries, I can get it working, usually.
Anybody else out there seen this? I thought it might be a problem with
ARP 1.3 or maybe on the MTOOLS side.
monty
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