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From: myb100@csc.anu.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Writing Amiga Disks on Sun Sparc Station
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.103547.3288@csc.anu.oz.au>
Date: 7 Nov 90 00:35:45 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.040011.7141@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1990Nov6.105500.5077@ericsson.se>
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In article <1990Nov6.105500.5077@ericsson.se>, etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
> In article <1990Nov6.040011.7141@ccu.umanitoba.ca> umbirch2@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Robert Birch) writes:
> -
> -  I know this has been asked before but could someone please send me the
> -procedure used to write Amiga disks on a sun sparc station. Also can I write
> -I*M disks on it too?
> -

This is coming close to another FAQ entry :-) To answer this and the 
following:

> -                                               Thanks, Robert Birch
> -                                             <umbirch2@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
> [...]
> then a utility to convert Amiga Images (Normal IFF and 24-bit) to other
> formats like GIF and SUN RasterFile.
> 
> Tommy Petersson

The trick is to use a format both Disk drives understand: namely MS-DOS.

For the SPARCStation you need a set of programmes called MTOOLS - 
available from comp.sources.misc or comp.sources.unix archives somewhere.
These provide you with a set of commands to read/write/delete/list etc.
MS-DOS formatted floppies on SPARCstations. I have a really ooooold version
of this, so I can't help you directly.

For the Amiga, get MSH (FishDisc #327) which makes the Amiga think that one
of its devices is reading AmigaDos discs, when in reality they are
MSDOS. Really neat !

Beware : Use only the 720k format, as the Amiga can't yet handle the 1.44M
stuff.

As regards the image conversion: get PBMPlus (ask in comp.graphics) for
the mainframe, and also available for the Amiga, and there's also
FBM for the Amiga - these last two are somewhere on Fish discs I think.

Have fun !

Cheers

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