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From: massa@uni-paderborn.de (Michael Janich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Writing Amiga Disks on Sun Sparc Station
Message-ID: <1990Nov9.160145.15486@uni-paderborn.de>
Date: 9 Nov 90 16:01:45 GMT
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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?

>                                               Thanks, Robert Birch
>                                             <umbirch2@ccu.umanitoba.ca>

We run both, sparc2amiga and amiga2sparc. 
On our sparc we only can write ONE file to the (block orientated) device
/dev/rfd0, so we use a tar file. OK. 
fdformat -l formats the disk to 720k I*M format (80track, 2side, 9sec, ...),
so messydos can read it. ok.
But: The sparc writes the tar sector for sector on the disk: sec1, sec2,...
so we need a program to put all sectors in one file (it's called disk2file).
And the other way we have a program file2disk, that writes a tar file from
the amiga(tar) to the messy-disk, so you can read it via sparc(tar).

OK? You wanna have it? Do ftp athene.uni-paderborn.de with anonymous and
cd /pcsoft/amigasoft/file/; binary; get Sparc2A.lzh, includes source in 
modula.

   Michael Janich, Uni Paderborn, United Germany