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From: Gord_Wait@mindlink.UUCP (Gord Wait)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: SUN to Amiga disk conversions
Message-ID: <5018@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 16:15:05 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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I have recently begun upgrading our sparc 1's at work to 4.1.1
The new version does indeed have built in msdos floppy disk drivers that seem
to work so far. (Haven't tried to format an msdos disk yet..)
BUT!!!: The software is INCREDIBLY slow. It took 2 hours to write roughly 100
little files onto an ms dos disk. I eventually got tired of listening to my
floppy drive buzz and killed it. (We have MACs on our ethernet that can
read/write msdos, so I wasn't desparate.) I have found a copy of MTOOLS for the
sparc, that I will try next, to see if they are faster. (Even my A1000 with a
poor olde 68000 can write msdos faster than /pcfs on the sparc...)
Gord Wait
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Gord Wait
Member of Technical Staff
ASIC Engineering
SMOS Systems
Vancouver Design Center
Gord_Wait@mindlink.UUCP