Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!nstar!tbissett From: tbissett@nstar.rn.com (Travis Bissett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga Subject: Re: Floppies under Ami Unix Message-ID: Date: 13 Apr 91 03:56:30 GMT References: <20276@brahms.udel.edu> Sender: bbs@nstar.rn.com (BBS Account) Organization: Indiana's Public Access Unix Site 219-289-0287 Lines: 28 don@brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes: > > Could someone please enlighten me as to how to go about using the floppies > on a 3000UX? The manual says very little; there's a floppy-format command, > and mounting the floppy seems easy enough. What kind of file system is being > mounted? Can I read AmigaDOS disks (floppy or otherwise) under UNIX? I'd > like to download some sources from the net to my Amiga at home and bring them I think you are referring to floppy useage under Unix. Lok in your /dev directory. You should find an fd0 device. Don't (generally) mount a floppy file system. Read and write to a formatted flopy via teh device: i.e. tar tvf /dev/fd0 >tape.list. Also, read manual pages for the dd command. Last I heard you can't get to Amiga files from Amix. Unless there is already an AmigaOS utility to do a tar format and tar functions. BTW tar means Tape ARchiver. Get another Amiga and connect it to you A3000ux via Dillon's DNET :-) P.S. I've never even seen an A3000ux let alone used one so I might not know what I'm talking about. -- Travis Bissett NSTAR conferencing site 219-289-0287 internet: tbissett@nstar.rn.com 1300 newsgroups - 8 inbound lines uucp: ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!tbissett 99 file areas - 4300 megabytes --- backbone news & mail feeds available - contact larry@nstar.rn.com ---