Floppies under Ami Unix

[Travis Bissett]

don at brahms.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:

> 
> 	Could someone please enlighten me as to how to go about using the floppies
> on a 3000UX?  The manual says very little; there's a floppy-format command,
> and mounting the floppy seems easy enough.  What kind of file system is being
> mounted?  Can I read AmigaDOS disks (floppy or otherwise) under UNIX?  I'd
> like to download some sources from the net to my Amiga at home and bring them

I think you are referring to floppy useage under Unix. Lok in your /dev 
directory. You should find an fd0 device. Don't (generally) mount a floppy 
file system. Read and write to a formatted flopy via teh device: i.e. tar 
tvf /dev/fd0 >tape.list. Also, read manual pages for the dd command. 

Last I heard you can't get to Amiga files from Amix. Unless there is already 
an AmigaOS utility to do a tar format and tar functions. BTW tar means Tape 
ARchiver. Get another Amiga and connect it to you A3000ux via Dillon's DNET 
:-)

P.S. I've never even seen an A3000ux let alone used one so I might not know 
what I'm talking about.


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