Using floppy diskettes on Sun

[Peter Sorensen]

hartanto at m.cs.uiuc.edu (Ismed Hartanto) writes:

>jorgi at cs.uow.edu.au (George B Zamroz) writes:
>>wang at math.ufl.edu writes:
>>>Hello, you all.
>>>For those of you who use SUN Sparc workstations with floppy drives, I
>>>have a question to ask for help: Is it possible, and how to transfer
>>>DOS ASCII files from floppies to a SUN Sparc station? According to
>>>SUN's booklet, the floppy drives for SUN Sparc stations are MS-DOS
>>>compatible. Does it mean that we can transfer files from and/or to
>>use the same physical format (80 tracks, double-sided, 1.44MB). Unfortunately
>>the file-systems are totally different, so unless you have a program on the PC
>>that understands the a UNIX file system, or a program on the SUN that
Sunos 4.1.1 mounts floppies as pcfs type which can be read on a pc.
The floppy must be mounted by root. Fdformat can format floppies
as msdos readable floppies.
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