hodges@toaster.SFSU.EDU (John Hodges) (07/01/90)
I desperately need to transfer largish files (300K+) from a home Mac to an office NeXT. Phone doesn't make it (going broke). I seem to recall that there is a floppy drive out there that does the job for transferring files to the NeXT, does anyone have information about that drive (or others) that I could use to remedy my situation? Thanks for any assistance. Jack Hodges, SFSU hodges@huckleberry.sfsu.edu
fhadsell@csm9a.UUCP ( GP) (07/04/90)
In article <729@toaster.SFSU.EDU>, hodges@toaster.SFSU.EDU (John Hodges) writes: > I desperately need to transfer largish files (300K+) from a home Mac > to an office NeXT. Phone doesn't make it (going broke). I seem to > recall that there is a floppy drive out there that does the job for > transferring files to the NeXT, does anyone have information about > that drive (or others) that I could use to remedy my situation? Thanks > for any assistance. > > Jack Hodges, SFSU > hodges@huckleberry.sfsu.edu We have had good luck with Dayna's DaynaFile system, unless the NeXT being used has an accelerator disk; at least this is my impression. Kathleen Speckhart of Dayna (1-800-531-0600) is investigating this little problem. Has anyone else had experience in this regard? -- INTERNET:: fhadsell@csm9a.colorado.edu BITNET:: fhadsell@mines Frank Hadsell, Prof. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401 (303) 273-3456
chambers@maple.uhnix1.uh.edu (Charles Chambers) (07/06/90)
>In article <2207@csm9a.UUCP> fhadsell@csm9a.UUCP ( GP) writes: > In article <729@toaster.SFSU.EDU>, hodges@toaster.SFSU.EDU (John Hodges) writes: > > I desperately need to transfer largish files (300K+) from a home Mac > > to an office NeXT. Phone doesn't make it (going broke). I seem to > > recall that there is a floppy drive out there that does the job for > > transferring files to the NeXT, does anyone have information about > > that drive (or others) that I could use to remedy my situation? Thanks > > for any assistance. > > > > Jack Hodges, SFSU > > hodges@huckleberry.sfsu.edu > > We have had good luck with Dayna's DaynaFile system, unless the NeXT > being used has an accelerator disk; at least this is my impression. > > Kathleen Speckhart of Dayna (1-800-531-0600) is investigating this little > problem. > > Has anyone else had experience in this regard? > > -- > INTERNET:: fhadsell@csm9a.colorado.edu BITNET:: fhadsell@mines > Frank Hadsell, Prof. of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines, > Golden, Colorado 80401 (303) 273-3456 A couple of notes: 1. The DaynaFile software that is used with the Next only understands DOS formatted diskettes. The transfer file from a MAC to a NeXT using the Daynafile of the NeXT end, requires that you format the disk's for DOS at the MAC end. Also note that because the Daynafile is a scsi disk drive, that it can be used to read/write Unix filesystems as well, but uses the NeXT's OS/Mach to do this. Well, the OS does not handle floppies with lots of bad blocks, and panic's alot (this is not a function of the DaynaFile, but rather a function of the OS). 2. Since the DaynaFile is a SCSI disk drive, it gets its own scsi device name which, if it is the lowest scsi id number is /dev/sd0a. This bumps the Accelerator drive device name to /dev/sd1a. To get the rc.swapdisk procedure to recoginize the new device name edit /etc/fstab and add line: /dev/sd1a /private/swapdisk 4.3 rw,noquota,noauto 0 0 and that should do it. Charles Chambers (713)-749-2531 University of Houston chambers@uh.edu College of Engineering chambers@uhou.bitnet