SUMMARY: floppy drive

From: Ashok Sharma (asharma@tssc.wlg.nec.co.jp)
Date: Tue Oct 25 1994 - 02:44:01 CDT


Greetings,

Lot of managers responded to my original question:

> Hi Managers
>
> I need to read a dos formatted diskette from the floppy drive
> attached to my Sparc station.
>
> Is there any such utility to read/write the floppy drive?.
>
>
> TIA
> Ashok
    
 
Thank you very much for everyone who answered my question. (sorry, if the
question was not relevant to this group).
Too many responses to mention.
Here goes the summary.....
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On a SunOs 4.1.3, as SuperUser and do the following
mkdir /pcfs
mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0c /pcfs

Solaris 2.x
if you have volmgt then only need to insert floppy
else
mkdir /pcfs
mount -F pcfs /dev/diskette /pcfs

Utility to read/write
unix2dos
dos2unix

This is real slow though!

Lot of good recommendation for a pkg called mttols
from archie (freeware), runs lot faster .
Another utility called mntdisk, allows non-root users to mount
floppies.
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