Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) (03/06/91)
In <111306.16298@timbuk.cray.com>, stuart@sequoia.cray.com (Stuart Mitchell) writes: [and basically somebody else about every month] [no attribute given] |> 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. | Would somebody more knowledgeable comment on the relative difficulty of writing a SUNOSFileSystem for the Amiga. We already have MSDosFileSystems. How much problem would it be to port ufs [BSD FS, I believe] to AmigaDOS? -het "This is not a videogame! This is not a videogame!" - furious Iraqui woman to TV crew Harvey Taylor Meta Media Productions uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Harvey_Taylor a186@mindlink.UUCP
Gord_Wait@mindlink.UUCP (Gord Wait) (03/07/91)
I have recently begun upgrading our sparc 1's at work to 4.1.1 The new version does indeed have built in msdos floppy disk drivers that seem to work so far. (Haven't tried to format an msdos disk yet..) BUT!!!: The software is INCREDIBLY slow. It took 2 hours to write roughly 100 little files onto an ms dos disk. I eventually got tired of listening to my floppy drive buzz and killed it. (We have MACs on our ethernet that can read/write msdos, so I wasn't desparate.) I have found a copy of MTOOLS for the sparc, that I will try next, to see if they are faster. (Even my A1000 with a poor olde 68000 can write msdos faster than /pcfs on the sparc...) Gord Wait -- Gord Wait Member of Technical Staff ASIC Engineering SMOS Systems Vancouver Design Center Gord_Wait@mindlink.UUCP