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.
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