Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!tab00.larc.nasa.gov!scott From: scott@tab00.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: SPARCstation floppy drive (again) Message-ID: Date: 1 Oct 90 04:03:40 GMT References: <14582@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (USENET File Owner) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 23665 Lines: 30 In-Reply-To: wilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu's message of 29 Sep 90 22:54:38 GMT >The sparc-mtools package from the sun archives at titan.rice.edu >work on my sparc 1+ to read and write 3.5" 720k disks for my PC. >Clarence Wilkerson Well, I have applied ALL necessary patches as well as received two binaries from a friend over the network, but I have yet to have a sparcstation format a 3.5" disk and have my 1040st (TOS1.0) read the disk without scrambling the data. I have tried formatting disks on the ST and the sparcstation and neither seems to make a difference. Next, I have yet to try to format a disk on a REAL IBM (clone! :-) ) but I don't think that will make a difference. If someone actually has this type of system working for them, I would LOVE to test your methods! Would you send me your binaries and the EXACT steps you use to read the disks? I think it's all a myth! It can't be done... [That ought to do it!] -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------