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From: finegan@uccba.UUCP (Mike Finegan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: cpio for DOS and 3b2 - followup
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Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 21:27:24 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 20 21:27:24 1987
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Summary: Are there technical references ?


If someone wants to write a device driver to do the DOS<=>3B2
horrors, is there a technical reference for the 3B2 floppy
drive, and are there good refernces for the appropriate DOS
floppies (1.2 or 360 - whichever) ? How about standard examples
of a device driver (with or without access to source) ?

Is there any standard for disk or tape cartridge tar (or cpio) format  ?
I have had no luck getting the 3B2 to read (or write) tape cartridges
written (or read) by 68000 based unix machines (whether Sys V or
Sun - BSD). It appears that even at the same density, there is a difference.
I realize that different tape drives may be aligned differently, is that
the problem?
I can't even get dd to work without errors if the disk was formatted on
a 68000 based Sys V system, for the same alignment reasons?

Is the idea lack of information transfer ? or do we want too much ?

					Mike Finegan
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