6386 WGS Questions

[Leslie Mikesell]

In article <4615 at cbnewsc.ATT.COM> psfales at cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales) writes:

>> 3. Can the 6386 read a floppy witten by a 3b2 ?

>I you mean mount a floppy with 3b2 file system, the answer is no.  However,
>I have transferred cpio archives written to the raw floppy in both 
>directions between a 3b2 and 6386 WGS.  Use /dev/rdsk/f05qt.

The 3B2 uses the last track of the otherwise normal 720K format for its
own purposes.  Thus, transfers with other machines would be limited to
archives that fit on a single disk unless you do some tricky stuff
to merge the pieces.

Les Mikesell
 les at chinet.chi.il.us