csa@STRATUS.COM (Chris Arthur) (12/05/90)
I hear there is software that lets you deal with MS-DOS format 3.5" floppies on Sun workstations that have 3.5" disk drives. Where can I get this software? Please reply by mail; I can't read this group... Chris Arthur csa@stratus.com csa@wpi.wpi.edu
philr@knecht.Eng.Sun.COM (Phil Robar) (12/05/90)
csa@STRATUS.COM (Chris Arthur) writes: >I hear there is software that lets you deal with MS-DOS format 3.5" > floppies on Sun workstations that have 3.5" disk drives. Where can > I get this software? Please reply by mail; I can't read this group... There are a couple of programs floating around for this, one I believe is called mtool. If you don't hear from anyone else I can probably dig up some information. Probably your best bet is to upgrade to SunOS 4.1.1: DESCRIPTION PCFS is a filesystem type that allows users direct access to files on MS-DOS formatted disks from within the SunOS operating system. Once mounted, a PCFS filesystem provides standard SunOS file operations and semantics. That is, users can create, delete, read, write files on an MS-DOS formatted disk. They can also create/delete directories and list files in a directory. PCFS filesystems are mounted either with the command: mount -t pcfs device-special directory-name or mount /pcfs if the following line /dev/fd0 /pcfs pcfs rw,noauto 0 0 is in your /etc/fstab. File and directories created through PCFS have to comply with the MS-DOS file name convention, which is of the form filename[.ext], where filename consists of one through eight upper-case characters, while the optional ext consists of one through three upper-case characters. PCFS converts all the lower-case characters in a file name to upper-case, and chops off any extra characters in filename or ext. When displaying file names, PCFS only shows them in lower-case. One can use either the MS-DOS FORMAT command, or fdformat -d command in the SunOS system to format a diskette in MS-DOS format. -- Philip Robar Sun Microsystems Phone: (415) 336-1423 philr@eng.sun.com sun!knecht.eng!philr