[comp.sys.amiga.hardware] Accessing Amiga floppies on a Sun

frits@duttnph.tudelft.nl (Frits Kuijlman) (02/25/91)

This has probably been asked before, but has anyone had any experience
with writing/reading Amiga 3.5" floppies on a Sun Sparcstation?
I seem to remember that this was discussed a few months ago.

At the moment I follow the following conversion path :

Sun -> ethernet -> appletalk -> Mac -> MS-DOS disk -> Amiga

It seems to me that this is a little too much (hundreds of smileys...)

Thanks,
    Frits
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Frits Kuijlman                     frits @ duttnph.tudelft.nl
Delft University of Technology                The Netherlands

stuart@sequoia.cray.com (Stuart Mitchell) (02/26/91)

> At the moment I follow the following conversion path :
>
> Sun -> ethernet -> appletalk -> Mac -> MS-DOS disk -> Amiga

There is a way to reduce this chain by using the "mtools" package which allows
SPARCstation users to read/write MS-DOS format disks. It's available by anon.
ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory mirrors/unix-c/utils, filename:
mtools.tar-z. I believe that SunOS 4.1.1 actually supports MS-DOS floppies
directly anyway (although I can't confirm that for definite as we don't have
any SPARC's running 4.1.1 *and* having a floppy drive.

Hope this is of some use.

Stuart
(stuart@cray.com)