[SPARCbook] PCFS lockup

[Kurt Huhn]

What about Samba?   Or FTP?

I recently sold off all of my external superfloppies and "transportable"
hard drives because I found myself not using them.  Once you get these
things on a  network, file copy procedures become a cake walk - instead of
an excersise in futility.

However, if you really want to be able to read a unix file system under
Windows (or DOS for that matter), you'll want to find a good mounting
routine for Windows.  I recall that I used such a beast to mount a Linux
drive on my Windows system once, but I can't remember the name.  It was a
command line program that ran in a DOS window on the desktop.  Run a search
at Tucows and you'll probably come up with 3 or 4 such things.

Kurt



>
>Hmmm, yesterday I tried copying one file (~220MB) to a Wintel Notebook
using
>one of the 170MB Calluna cards. First of all, when mounting it via
"mount -F
>pcfs /dev/dsk/c1d0s2 /rdisk" I was unable to write more than 16MB to them,
>afterwards the kernel complains about a corupted filesystem. Needless to
say
>that formatting on a PC doesn't help.
>
>I then tried the Mtools to reformat the disk on the Sparcbook, using the
>geometry the cards advertise (AFAIR, 1295 cylinders, 8 heads, 32 sectors),
>but the >1023 cylinders seem to cause total system lockup upon mounting
>(Yes, that's still Solaris 2.5.1 I'm using... where can i report this
bug?).
>(the "good" news it than one can at least dd if=/dev/zero that thing in
>Solaris, with windows, insertion of one of these causes a bluescreen with
no
>way out but a reboot).
>
>I did succeed in getting the file over with dd if=[...] bs=1024 skip=...
>|count=163000? | mcopy - z:
>
>But that's dog slow, just like the pcfs mount. Anyone with better ideas?
>
>
>Rainer
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