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From: wehr@fmsrl7.UUCP (Bruce Wehr )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Mounting a BASIC disk under HP-UX.
Message-ID: <42941@fmsrl7.UUCP>
Date: 29 May 91 12:11:47 GMT
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gill@mars.m2c.org (Robert Gill) writes:
> I have an HP 9000/330 that has 2 disks attached to it.  One is running 
> BASIC and the other HP-UX 6.2.  I would like to access some of the data 
> files on the BASIC disk while running HP-UX.

Yes, it can be done.

First, there a 2 different file systems that your HP BASIC disk could
be. HP BASIC was initially written to use LIF file systems. Since HP
BASIC 5.X they have added the capability to use HFS file systems (the
file system that HP-UX uses). The first step is to determine the type
of file system that your HP BASIC disk is (my guess would be LIF - a
CAT under HP BASIC will answer this - if it's HFS, it'll say so).

If it is LIF, you can't mount it, but there are LIF utilities bundled
with HP-UX ('man lif' for more info). If it is HFS, then you can mount
the file system (you might need to fsck it first).

Hope this helps.

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