Can I get an AT w/SCO XENIX to read Altos 586 floppies?

[Brad Templeton]

In article <1927 at osu-eddie.UUCP> mdf at osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>Does anyone have a driver or utility that will let me read a floppy made
>on an Altos 586 (tar or mount format) on an IBM-AT running the latest version
>of SCO's XENIX?
>The Altos writes DSDD 96tpi disks, so it is theoretically possible. 

If the disks are w~hat I think, it's not only possible, it's very easy.

Xenix's device driver for the floppy can handle any combination of
1 or 2 sides, 40 or 80 tracks, 8, 9 or 15 sectors per track.  They have
devices for all these.  In your case, you want /dev/rfd096ds9 or rfd096ds8
depending on how many sectors per track.

I use the 96ds9 device for all my backup and TAR work.  It's 720K but it
works just fine on cheap floppies, so you don't have to pay 5 times the price
for 1.2 meg ones.

Now, somebody should write a 720K DOS device driver for the AT!

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Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473