6386 WGS Questions

Gerry Gleason gerry at zds-ux.UUCP
Sat Nov 11 07:44:03 AEST 1989


In article <4615 at cbnewsc.ATT.COM> psfales at cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales) writes:
>In article <6358 at cbnewsm.ATT.COM>, dab at cbnewsm.ATT.COM (david.a.berk) writes:
>> 3. Can the 6386 read a floppy witten by a 3b2 ?

>I you mean mount a floppy with 3b2 file system, the answer is no.  However,
>I have transferred cpio archives written to the raw floppy in both 
>directions between a 3b2 and 6386 WGS.  Use /dev/rdsk/f05qt.

Wait a minute, if you can read the physical format, you should be able to
mount it.  Isn't a System V file system a System V file system (with the
possible exception of version skews).

What gives?

Gerry Gleason



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