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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!nntp.crl.com!crl.crl.com!not-for-mail From: ctorlins@crl.com (Christoph Torlinsky) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using ZIP drive across UNIX hardware platforms? Followup-To: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Date: 3 Jan 1996 20:35:06 -0800 Organization: CRL Network Services (415) 705-6060 [Login: guest] Lines: 32 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4cfldq$lic@crl.crl.com> References: <4cb9aq$9d5@gilligan.htc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36519 comp.sys.sun.hardware:30977 comp.unix.solaris:55521 comp.sys.sun.admin:59552 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1810 How about using cpio?? with the -c option you can have the header written out as ascii and be totally portable. which should work for ya? no? How do you get a zip to work with a sparc? isnt the connector differenT? smaller? I have an ss20, and my coworker has a zip, naturally I want to do the same as you did...do I need an adapter? risk of frying the scsi bus? -chris Thomas Naughton (naughton@htc.com) wrote: : I have a couple of IOMEGA ZIP drives (one at work, and one : at home). At work I have a Sun workstation running Solaris 2.5 and : at home I have an Intel PC running BSDI 2.0. Both of these machines : can access the ZIP drives and create and mount filesystems on the : removable disks. While this is great for archiving old software : on each of the systems, I'd like to be able to share data between : the two platforms (alternatively, I'd like it to work with SGI, AIX, : etc.). : I have tried to use `dd`, and `tar`, but because it's not a : tape drive, it doesn't seem to work right. Both systems don't use : the same type of filesystem, so I can't take a filesystems that was : created on one, and mount it on the other. : Does anyone have any suggestions? Are there any filesystems : that will work on both (all?) platforms? : Thanks in advance. Any help would be appreciated. : -- : Thomas Naughton naughton@htc.com Ph. (312)697-2715 Fax. (312)697-2785 : UNIX System and Network Administrator - Hull Trading Company : Chicago | New York | Kansas City | Frankfurt | Hong Kong : "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -John Gilmore