Re: floppy disks on RT

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From: Mark Ryan Miller
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 06:28

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Well, I've figured out how to use the "backup" and "restore"
commands under AIX.  But my problem is that I'm running Mach/BSD 4.3
on another machine.  It seems that the backup format or disk formats
are incompatible.  I successfully backed up files from the AIX machine
using "backup".  But when I tried reading them on the Mach machine
using "dump", it tells me that it's not a dump diskette.

Is there a way around this??  The one common thing that both have is the
ability to read/write to DOS diskettes.  But I don't have a program
to do a backup to standard DOS format diskettes.

I think I have two options.

(1) setup a floppy device on my Mach machine which has 80 tracks, 15 sectors
    as the disk format (OR) do something equivalent on the AIX machine, if
    I can figure out the disk format

(2) find a program running under Mach that does a backup/restore to DOS
    formatted diskettes.

Can anybody help???

--Mark

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