klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (12/21/90)
Does anybody have experience with MTools? I would like to write files to a floppy on my Sun Sparcstation using MTools and read them with my Atari ST. However, on the ST I can read only the first one or two sectors, then the last portion of the file is repeated, then a read error occurs. On a PC reading the file is no problem. (No, I did not touch the PC myself - I had someone doing that for me :-).) Consequently MTools works ok but something is wrong at the ST side. Any hints? -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386
ridderbusch.pad@nixdorf.com (Frank Ridderbusch, PXD-S4) (12/23/90)
>>>>> On 21 Dec 90 13:33:09 GMT, klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) said:
R> Does anybody have experience with MTools?
R> I would like to write files to a floppy on my Sun Sparcstation using MTools
R> and read them with my Atari ST. However, on the ST I can read only the
R> first one or two sectors, then the last portion of the file is repeated,
R> then a read error occurs.
R> On a PC reading the file is no problem. (No, I did not touch the PC myself
R> - I had someone doing that for me :-).) Consequently MTools works ok but
R> something is wrong at the ST side.
R> Any hints?
R> --
R> Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
R> Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet
R> Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663
R> D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386
I am also using Mtools on my local un*x box and had the same problems
that you mention (My Mtools was an older version, not 2.0). Further
investigation showed, that Mtools only wrote and updated one File
Allocation Table (FAT). While PC's have not trouble with this, the ST
does. My sources of Mtools had a define in it to allow writing of both
FAT's. After recompiling the Mtools worked okay.
Hope, this helps.
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klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (12/27/90)
In article <RIDDERBUSCH.PAD.90Dec23124057@ugun13.nixdorf.de>, ridderbusch.pad@nixdorf.com (Frank Ridderbusch, PXD-S4) writes: |> I am also using Mtools on my local un*x box and had the same problems |> that you mention (My Mtools was an older version, not 2.0). Further |> investigation showed, that Mtools only wrote and updated one File |> Allocation Table (FAT). While PC's have not trouble with this, the ST |> does. My sources of Mtools had a define in it to allow writing of both |> FAT's. After recompiling the Mtools worked okay. The define's name is DUP_FAT. Just compile init.c with -DDUP_FAT. -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386
ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (01/02/91)
In article <2890@laura.UUCP> klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes: | | In article <RIDDERBUSCH.PAD.90Dec23124057@ugun13.nixdorf.de>, | ridderbusch.pad@nixdorf.com (Frank Ridderbusch, PXD-S4) writes: | |> I am also using Mtools on my local un*x box and had the same problems | |> that you mention (My Mtools was an older version, not 2.0). I have posted an ST compatible patch to one of the newsgroups which redid the DEFINE and also patched the volume name for Gulam! By the way, where is Mtools 2.0 available for FTP? P.S. PC's also have trouble with the single FAT: it depends upon which application you use. -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Proud new owner of a Mega 4 ST. What should I do with my *small* SH204 drive?
klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) (01/03/91)
Thanks to everybody who replied to my recent Mtools question here. Several people suggestest to define DUP_CAT in the file init.c. This worked fine. However, the author of Mtools, Emmet P. Gray (fthood!egray@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu) brought to my attention, that the latest Mtools version 2.0.3. does not need the DUP_CAT definition anymore. This version also has bugs removed and new features. Mr Gray said that he had posted Mtools v2.0 to the unix-pc.sources newsgroup (and mailed to the moderator of comp.sources.unix) on the 17th of September 1990. Since then, patches 1, 2, and 3 have been posted to unix-pc.sources, comp.sources.bugs, and emailed to Rich Salz. In addition, the current version of Mtools and all patches are available via anonymous ftp from cerl.cecer.army.mil (129.229.1.101). I installed this Mtools version on my SPARCstation and I am working (i. e. interchanging floppies with my Atari ST) with it without problems. -- Dipl.-Inform. Rainer Klute klute@irb.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Univ. Dortmund, IRB klute@unido.uucp, klute@unido.bitnet Postfach 500500 |)|/ Tel.: +49 231 755-4663 D-4600 Dortmund 50 |\|\ Fax : +49 231 755-2386