Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 23:14:27 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Donn Miller <dmm125@bellatlantic.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: reading Sun-formatted diskettes Message-ID: <199809250614.XAA00472@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Sep 1998 00:44:13 -0000." <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. 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
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