Making the DS3100 floppy do stuff

[Kurt Hoyt]

In article <11862 at milton.u.washington.edu>, flanagan at lisbon.stat.washington.edu
(Jim Flanagan) writes:
|>   I recently got a DS3100 with a RX23 floppy drive. I have some questions
|>   on how to make it go.
|> 

DO NOT apply the patch. If you are using ULTRIX 4.0, you would be using
UWS 4.0. UWS 2.2 ran on ULTRIX 3.1. As of 4.0, the version numbers are in
sync.

|>   Is ULTRIX Worksystem different from the ULTRIX operarting system? Anyways
|>   the kernel doesn't seem to recognize the device.

Is the rz device for the floppy configured in? The RX23 is a SCSI drive on
the DS3100.

|>   Second question: Once the drive is up and running, is there any utility
|>   to format and write DOS floppies (without SoftPC or something like that)?

To format, use rzdisk(8). To make a filesystem, use newfs(8). I don't know
if the disks produced are MS-DOS compatible: they appear to have a BSD
file system on them after the newfs and the drive is a SCSI drive, not a PC
drive.

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