1997 May 12
Thanks to all who responded to my attached post especially Todd Featherston
and John Deacon. I followed the instructions below provided by Todd
and it worked, just as he describes. I am using Digital Unix version
4.0 and gcc 2.7.2.1
Other responses suggested using PC-NFS or Samba using the PC as the
server. I intend to try these out, but for now I just need the
functionality of mtools.
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I just got finished setting this up for a IOMEGA Jaz. It should work
the same for a ZIP. I have DU 3.2d and used gcc 2.7.2.
1) Get the latest version of mtools at:
http://linux.wauug.org/pub/knaff/mtools/mtools-3.6.tar.gz
2) Read the Readme file then run the configure script.
3) Before you run make you need to edit the file "sysincludes.h"
and comment out the prototypes for both "read()" and "write()".
they are at line 324.
4) Make it!
5) move the "mtools.conf" to /etc and add a line for your Jaz
drive. Example:
# Jaz Disk 1
drive c: file="/dev/rz4c" partition=4
Thats it!
It seems to work ok. I've done directories and copied files
onto a DOS formated Jaz disk. I'll know for sure in a couple
of days when I try to actually read the files on a Jaz hooked
to a Windows machine.
Good Luck!
Todd Featherston
SFEI
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I've got mtools v3.0 to work with ZIP disks. Download "ztools.tar.gz" from
ftp://ftp.star.ucl.ac.uk/pub/system and give it a go. It works fine at
reading files from and writing them to disks that have already been formatted
for DOS, the only thing you can't do is format them in the first place.
All you should need to do is create a directory (say /usr/local/ztools),
unpack the kit, source the zsetup file and you should be up and running.
All the usual mtools commands are then available, i've just aliased them
to zdir, zcopy etc.
The key file is ".mtoolsrc" which specifies whether your ZIP drive is
rz5 or rz6 and, most importantly, the offset at the start of the disk.
Hope this helps.
Cheers,
John.
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My original Post:
At 04:14 PM 5/8/97:
>
>Hello:
>
>Since the subject of IOMEGA is again showing up in the list I thought
>I would see if their usefulness on Digital Unix can be extended further.
>
>With the help of this list we are now using both ZIP 100 drives and JAZ
>drives as both tar devices and UFS mounted disks on our ALPHA workstations.
>
>What is now in demand is the ability to share the same ZIP 100 disk and
>JAZ cartridges between Digital Unix and PCs. The first thing that came
>to my mind was MTOOLS. They work well on floppy disks and I can't see
>that increasing MTOOLS functionality to ZIP and JAZ disks should be
>terribly complicated.
>
>I tried pointing /etc/mtools.conf to a device pointing at a ZIP drive
>but got back an error message saying the sector is too large.
>
>I wonder if anyone has worked on this and possible come up with a
>solution, using MTOOLS or not.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Richard Abraham
>
>
Received on Mon May 12 1997 - 22:02:34 NZST