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From: naughton@htc.com (Thomas Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Using ZIP drive across UNIX hardware platforms?
Date: 2 Jan 1996 06:44:10 -0600
Organization: Hull Trading Company
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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
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