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From: dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: cpio for DOS and 3b2?
Message-ID: <198@westmark.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Oct-87 23:03:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: westmark.198
Posted: Mon Oct  5 23:03:57 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 9-Oct-87 23:31:34 EDT
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Keywords: cpio,floppy
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In article <151@bhjat.UUCP>, bhj@bhjat.UUCP (burt janz) writes:
> In article <472@unirot.UUCP>, samperi@unirot.UUCP (Dominick Samperi) writes:
...
> > I've since learned that the 3B2's do not format floppies in the same way
> > that the PC does. Does anyone know how floppies are formatted on the 3B2?
...
> Recently, I tried to read some 3b2 floppies on Microport SV/AT V2.2.2L on
> my AT clone.  I was able to read the first track...
...
> with both the 360k floppy and the 1.2mb floppy I got read errors when the
> floppy stepped to the next track.
...

I think the 3b2 machines use quad-density (720 kbyte) floppies. 
This probably means that the track spacing is different, which
explains why it's hard to step beyond track 0.  If this is the case,
then there is also a different media (not dsdd, and also not hd)
required.

Anyone at AT&T care to comment?
-- 
Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc.		A node for news.
Warren, NJ USA
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