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From: carpente@parc.xerox.com (Michael A. Carpenter OSBU North)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: SUN Sparc Format Conversion
Message-ID: <1991Jan30.221511.19427@parc.xerox.com>
Date: 30 Jan 91 22:15:11 GMT
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In article <1347@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com> boi@richsun.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Ken Boi) writes:
>Would anyone know if there exists a utility (commercial or PD)
>to read SUN Sparcstation formatted disks (3.5") on the Amiga?

1.  It isn't possible.  The Suns write using high density disks and the 
Amiga can't read them.  (Just like it can't read IBM format 1.44 MB disks.)

2.  You could use mtools (PD programs for Unix machines) to make the
SparcStation write PC format low density disks and then use CrossDos or
MSH (MessyDos) to read them on the Amiga.  Caution:  I have had trouble
with this approach, as have others, primarily because of the difference
in alignment and track width of the high density SparcStation drives and
the lower density Amiga drives.

Michael Carpenter