Re: Reading/Writing BSD Zip disks under netbsd/amiga and netbsd/i386

[mcmahill%mtl.mit.edu@localhost]

disklabels tend to be machine dependent so I suspect thats your problem.
I'd suggest either

a) using something like a DOS file system (access with the mtools package
   or just mount -t msdos) or HFS files system (access with the hfsutils
   or xhfs package).  

b) use tar.  for example

        tar cvf /dev/rsdXc file1 [file2 ...]

   to write and 

         tar tvf /dev/rsdXc

   to list and
 
         tar xvf /dev/rsdXc
  
  to extract.  Be _sure_ to replace "X" with the correct number for your
  zip device.  Do _not_ mess up and use the number for your hard drive or
  you'll be sorry.
 

-Dan

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Ben Bogart - FMPM/F1999 wrote:

> I installed a disklabel and new ffs filesystem on a zip disk on the i386 
> but I can't mount it on the amiga. The amiga says there is no disklabel 
> though i386 sees the disklabel. I was sure to use the -r option to write 
> the label directly to disk on the i386. Is the way the i386 writes 
> disklabels incompatible with amiga? I need to have zip disks 
> read/writeable from both amiga and i386. Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> NetBSD 1.4.2 Amiga, 4MB RAM, 2.1GB HD, SCSI Zip, Custom Kernel
> NetBSD 1.4.2 i386, 64MB RAM, 3GB HD, IDE ZIP, Custom Kernel
> 
> 
> B. Bogart
> Convergent Media Designer
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