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From: "kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com
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Subject: Re: wishful? I want to write an amiga disk from a sparcstation...
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Date: 18 Dec 89 00:51:34 GMT
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From: Montgomery Kosma <kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM>
Subject: Re: wishful? I want to write an amiga disk from a sparcstation...
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    Date: Sat, 25-Nov-89 01:10:22-PST
    Date: 25 Nov 89 14:39:46 GMT
    From: myb100%csc.anu.OZ@uunet.UU.NET

    Now I can answer this question. Thank you to Toivo for the info, and I've just
    spent a few happy hours sneaking through FTPland :-)

    On the SPARCstation you need MTOOLS, which allows you to write MSDOS disks on
    the internal drive - it allows you to choose any of the standard MSDOS
    formats, one of which is DS/DD 720k 3.5in disks.

	    where: look in usenet/comp.sources.unix/volume11/mtools on
		   xanth.cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] - two files.

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okay, I'm back from my honeymoon and ready to continue this discussion I
started...I got MTOOLS also, but found that it requires something in
/dev (I think...I haven't looked at unix in >3 years) which is basically
a device driver for the 3.5" floppy.  looking on the sparcstation, it
doesn't seem as if I have the right file that MTOOLS is looking for.
Any ideas?  Has anybody got this (MTOOLS) to work yet?  What do I need
to do to at least find out whether or not I have the right device driver
for the drive?

Thanks!

monty
kosma@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com