From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 24 23:10:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA04141 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:10:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from word.smith.net.au (castles360.castles.com [208.214.167.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA04081; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:10:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA00472; Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:14:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Message-Id: <199809250614.XAA00472@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Donn Miller cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading Sun-formatted diskettes In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:44:13 -0000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:14:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. Solaris uses a different word ordering; you can't mount Solaris filesystems under FreeBSD. > 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. This is a FreeBSD support list; we can't help you with Solaris issues other than to point out that we dont suffer from them. > 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. It's a convenient excuse for not fixing their driver. > 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. It means they have different ad copy writers. > 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? No, this is just FreeBSD being very generous waiting for possibly extremely bogus IDE disks which can take up to that long to indicate their presence. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message