Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:44:13 +0000 (GMT) From: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: reading Sun-formatted diskettes Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980925002603.175A-100000@myname.my.domain>
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I'm trying to find out how to read floppies formatted in Sun filesystem format... supposedly, they're in UFS format, which FreeBSD uses. Maybe there's an option to `mount' to read older 4.3BSD filesystems? I couldn't find anything in the manpages about this. I know you can use the option to `newfs' to create 4.3BSD formats. I was trying to copy the Solaris install CD onto the first slice of HD #2, because Solaris panics while trying to boot the kernel off the CD for the first time. I just want to test to make sure it's not my CDROM Solaris is choking on. The tech-support guy at Sun Microsystems said that maybe my CDROM wasn't 100% ATAPI/IDE compliant. Now I'm wondering why Solaris is so picky that it has to have a CDROM that is 100% IDE compliant, even though FreeBSD/Linux/Win98 can use the CDROM perfectly well. It's a BTC 24X max CDROM. BTW, is there a diff between "24X max" and "24X" CDROMS? I went to BTC's website at http://www.btc.com.tw/ and it said my particular model is ATAPI/IDE and completely MPC level 3 compliant. BTW, what does MPC level 3 compliant mean? Does it mean that it's 100% ATAPI compliant? When FreeBSD boots up, it sort of "hangs" for about 25 seconds while probing the CDROM, but it still works great. Is this an indication that it's not 100% IDE complian? I think the bottom line is that Sun places a higher prio on supporting SPARC hardware than on supporting x86, and that's why it's so damn picky about HW. Sorry I spent so much time talking about Sun here, but I just want to be sure my computer's got compatible HW to run on many different OS's. Tbanks Donn To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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