Can I get an AT w/SCO XENIX to read Altos 586 floppies?

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In article <1927 at osu-eddie.UUCP> mdf at osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>Does anyone have a driver or utility that will let me read a floppy made
>on an Altos 586 (tar or mount format) on an IBM-AT running the latest version
>of SCO's XENIX?
>
>This would save me from transferring 30 Meg of data with Kermit, so I'd be
>willing to pay a reasonable price.
>
>The Altos writes DSDD 96tpi disks, so it is theoretically possible.  I'm not
>interested in how to go about writing a program to do it.  I want to get a
>finished program.
>
Either of the below can be used in an AT in the 1.2 mb drive, and also work
with SCO's format(1) command.

brw-rw-rw-   2 bin      bin        2, 36 Nov 14  1985 fd096ds9
crw-rw-rw-   2 bin      bin        2, 36 Nov 14  1985 rfd096ds9

Here is a shell script I use for formatting and taring 720k floppies.  Much
more cost effective than the overpriced HS diskettes, and in my experience,
no more unreliable.

set -e
format -f -q /dev/E -i 2
tar cfvkb /dev/e 720 20 $@
tar tvf /dev/E
#dd if=/dev/e of=/dev/null bs=5120 count=72

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