Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 23:35:23 -0600 (MDT) From: wes@intele.net To: ptroot@uswest.com (Paul T. Root) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Transferring drive from Solaris 2.4 to FreeBSD Message-ID: <199606220535.XAA03335@obie.softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <125520207@toto.iv>
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Paul T. Root writes: > I have a couple of SyQuest EZ135 drives, one on my Sparc Tadpole > (Solaris 2.4) at work and one on my 486 FreeBSD box at home. The > drive works great on both boxes, and the obvious next step is to > have both machines use the same disk so I can move 100 Meg at a > time without using the 28.8 line. > > Is this possible? I configured the disk on FreeBSD to not > interoperate with other OSs on the PC. Which I read to mean that It > ignores fdisk stuff and just writes to the whole disk. But that > still wouldn't mount on my Sparc. If you don't make a filesystem on them, and just use the "raw" disk device as input/output for tar, it should work. I use floppies this way frequently. I.e. $ tar cvzf /dev/rfd0 . [drive home] $ tar xvzf /dev/rfd0 [continue working] This skips around incompatibilities in filesystem layout and such by not using an filesystem. -- Wes Peters | Softweyr | Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Consulting | softweyr@xmission.com
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