UNIX filesystems on Sun SPARCstation floppy disks (solved, sort of)

Joe M. Wade zjmw36 at trc.amoco.com
Wed May 1 07:38:00 AEST 1991


In article <1991Apr26.141911.17924 at Arco.COM>, phil at inetg1.ARCO.COM (Phil Meyer) writes:
|> 
|> Some 3-1/2" floppies have holes in BOTH corners.  You have to tape over the
|> other hole in order for the SUNOS tools to work.
|> 'Once bitten...'
|> --- 
The second hole on some diskettes is to denote that is is high density. If
SUNOS tools only works for low density as you imply, you could probably 
force low density fomatting on a high density diskette. Better yet, just 
use a low density diskette.
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