VME format on a PC

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3 total messages Started by Sean Blagdon Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:10

#74

Author: Sean Blagdon
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:10

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I'm a first timer on this news group, so go easy on me!

Does anybody know of a product that will allow me to write VME format disks, on a standard P.C.? Any help will be gratefully recieved.

Thanks
  Shaun.

All my views are mine and no one else's.

Re: VME format on a PC

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Author: Gerd Truschinski
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:56

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In article <1993Jan27.161039@axion.bt.co.uk>, sblagdon@axion.bt.co.uk (Sean Blagdon) writes:
|> 
|> I'm a first timer on this news group, so go easy on me!
|> 
|> Does anybody know of a product that will allow me to write VME format disks, on a standard P.C.? Any help will be gratefully recieved.
|> 
|> Thanks
|>   Shaun.
|> 
|> All my views are mine and no one else's.

Hi Shaun,
pleace tell me what 'VME format disks' are. And what kind of OS do you use on 
your PC.

/gT/

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Re: VME format on a PC

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Author: Matthew R. Singer
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:04

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|>In article <1993Jan27.161039@axion.bt.co.uk> sblagdon@axion.bt.co.uk (Sean Blagdon) writes:
|>There is no such thing as VME format disks; disks formats are OS-specific
|>in terms of their file systems (below that, maybe controller specific).
|>What OS are you running on your VME system?  If Unix, there may be DOS-based
|>tools for writing Unix format file systems; conversely, there are
|>Unix-based tools for writing DOS format file systems.
|>-- 

Such as??? A MesSyDos based tool to read Sun disks could be handy...

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