spaf.gatech@UDel-Relay (04/10/83)
From: the soapbox of Gene Spafford <spaf.gatech@UDel-Relay> Anybody out there had any experience in making floppies on a Vax with an Rx01 floppy drive for use on Perq's? Basically, the Vax drive will make single-sided floppies in RT-11 format, and then I can read them on the Perq's. However, there seems to be some kind of format problem. When I format the floppies on the Perq using the "floppy" utility (single sided, single density) and then use "arff" on the Vax (under 4.1bsd Unix), I get a directory which has garbage at the end, although "arff" can read and write to the floppy still. When I put the diskette back in the Perq, the whole thing is munged so badly that "floppy" cannot read anything off the diskette. The only way the thing works is to use "flcopy" on the Vax to copy a good disk onto my blank floppy, then use "arff" to delete the contents, then use "arff" to add the files I want. This is tedious and long. I need a way to properly format the diskettes and make this whole process a little easier. I have lots and lots of files to move and any suggestions/code/pointers will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Please reply directly to: Spaf.GATech@UDel-Relay (CSNet and Arpa) ....!allegra!gatech!spaf (uucp)