Subject: Re: Spectrum issues revisited
To: Amiga NetBSD port <port-amiga@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@jocelyn.rhein.de>
List: port-amiga
Date: 07/03/1999 19:18:29
On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 03:21:02PM +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
>
> > > Cool. Who would have thought? :-)))
> >
> > Uhm, yes. It will even set the clean flag.
> >
> > the AmigaOS "bffs-1.5beta", whoever, also is rumoured to read and write
> > 4.4bsd ffs correctly, but I never tried it.
>
> I have been unable to make bffs1.5b work so far, but I found a
> workaround: I can read/write 4.4bsd filesystems with the ufs
> filesystem of linux 2.2.x kernels. This is even better because
> I'm normally reading Unix (tar) floppies under Linux, as is it more
> reliable than rawdisk and friends under AmigaOS, and such floppies
> cannot be read with NetBSD.
Oh yes, they can.
-is