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 -- 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)