john@compugen. (Jim Lien) (07/08/89)
I have a 2 hard drive system. DOS partition 'C'/Xenix on 1 drive, & DOS partition 'D' on the other. While I can use the 'dos*' utilities from Xenix to access files on 'C', I'm not sucessful in accessing files from 'D'. If this is commonly possible, what are the pre-requisites?
timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn) (07/10/89)
In article <1534@compugen.> john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin) writes: >I have a 2 hard drive system. DOS partition 'C'/Xenix on 1 drive, & DOS >partition 'D' on the other. While I can use the 'dos*' utilities from Xenix >to access files on 'C', I'm not sucessful in accessing files from 'D'. If >this is commonly possible, what are the pre-requisites? I have the 286 Xenix running on my system the same kind of configuration, Xenix has 98.5% of Drive C (DOS get's 1.5%), and DOS has all of drive D. I have *no* problem whatsoever in using the doscp, dosdir and other mssy-dos like commands under xenix to get to the Dos files. Are you doing your commands rights? The dos* commands all like to see unix '/' instead of your dos '\' for pathnames, and you have to specify the *full* path name "C:/dos/fname.123" (no wild-carding allowed :-( so if you're copying a lot of files over you'll need to cook up a script which repeats the same commands for the different files.) Hope this helps.... BTW - which rev. of 286 Xenix are you running? +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Timothy D. Kuehn timk@egvideo | |TDK Consulting Services !watmath!egvideo!timk | |871 Victoria St. North, Suite 217A | |Kitchener, Ontario, Canada N2B 3S4 (519)-741-3623 | |DOS/Xenix - SW/HW. uC, uP, DBMS. Guaranteed Work 100% | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ be
glenn@ocsmd.ocs.com (glenn ford) (07/10/89)
In article <1534@compugen.> john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin) writes: >I have a 2 hard drive system. DOS partition 'C'/Xenix on 1 drive, & DOS >partition 'D' on the other. While I can use the 'dos*' utilities from Xenix >to access files on 'C', I'm not sucessful in accessing files from 'D'. If >this is commonly possible, what are the pre-requisites? Try doing a dosdir d:, or try reading the raw device directly. I had the same problem, and using 'd:' worked OK until I bought a miniscribe 71 meg that required a device driver to be loaded BEFORE you could see the DOS partition. Now all I can do is Xfer DOS files to floppage, boot Xenix, and then dos* off 'x:'. It stinks, but can't figure out a better way! Glenn Ford ..uunet!ocsmd!stsim!glenn
davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen) (07/12/89)
Older versions of Xenix wouldn't access DOS partitions unless they were
within the first 32MB of the drive (SCO support helped me find this). I
don't know if that's true because I moved all my DOS partitions before I
upgraded my Xenix. If you have your partition in the high cylinders you
may want to rearrange and see if that helps.
bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -mecroes@imec.uucp (Kris Croes) (07/12/89)
In article <1534@compugen.> john@compugen.UUCP (John Beaudin) writes: >I have a 2 hard drive system. DOS partition 'C'/Xenix on 1 drive, & DOS >partition 'D' on the other. While I can use the 'dos*' utilities from Xenix >to access files on 'C', I'm not sucessful in accessing files from 'D'. If >this is commonly possible, what are the pre-requisites? You should know that 'c:','d:',... are just shorthands for /dev/hd0d, /dev/hd01,... and these are defined somewhere in a file in the /etc/defaults directory (I can't come up to the exact name right now), the format is self explanatory. BTW: dosdir /dev/hd1d/tmp ,or, doscp /tmp/xxx /dev/hd1d are also valid. You should nose around in more files on your system. :-) Kris. -- -------- K. CROES - IMEC - Leuven - Belgium ..!prlb2!imec!croes The Demon King bites in your leg and you feel weaker.