HELP UNIX Formatted floppies

[Lewis Breeding]

Is there anyone who can tell me how I can get a UNIX (I believe it was AIX or IRIX) formatted floppy to read in a windows XP or 2000 workstation? I need to get these files onto the network so I can transfer and read them on my C160 WS, it came with a tape drive and not a floppy. Is there an emulator that would do this, or do I have to buy a floppy drive for the C160? If I have to buy a floppy, would any windows floppy drive work or does it have to be a UNIX floppy drive? Thanks in advance.

[Tom Ward_1]

Hello Lewis,

You can use RawWrite, http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/rawwrite.htm, on your PC to make an iso file of the floppy and then ftp it to your C160. From there I believe you can mount the iso file via a loopback. I'm sorry but I don't know the details. I've done it a time or two on linux, but never on hpux.

[Lewis Breeding]

Thanks, I'll look into it, but I would like more details if anyone has ever had to do this.

[Lewis Breeding]

Unfortunately this program still does not work, win2000 still asks me if i want to format the disc even when I choose the a: drive on the machine from within the read portion of the program. That would be a disaster.

[Tom Ward_1]

Lewis,

I've been looking around and I don't think HPUX has a loopback driver, so even if you can get an ISO file from floppy, you'd have to use a linux box to mount it. The only other program that I can think of is winimage. http://www.winimage.com/winimage.htm

Be sure to write protect the floppy.

Good luck,
Tom

[Lewis Breeding]

Still no luck, windows just refuses to recognize the file(s) on the disc. It just keeps asking to reformat the disc. Thanks anyway.

[Mic V.]

Since nothing has solved this, I'll chime in with my $.02:

- possibly Cygwin utilities (www.cygwin.org) might read the floppy, but I haven't done this
- possibly you could just download Linux, install on a spare machine, and perhaps then you could get Tom's method to work (hi, Tom, you're correct about your hunch :)
- is there any possible way you could get it sent to you in a different medium?
- possibly there's someone else at work/in your geographical area who could read the floppy for you and give it to you on tape/mail/FTP

There's always a way.

Best,
Mic

[Lethuillier]

Take a look here ;

http://www.unixguide.net/hp/faq/5.8.2.shtml

The dosif commands are very slow; a faster alternative that can handle
long filenames and also works with ZIP drives and similar devices is
the free Mtools package, available from the HP-UX Porting and Archive
Center and http://www.artwork.com/eesof/mtools/download.htm



Hope this helps,
Thierry

[kamal_9]

HI
just search for this utility and download it Wiprouwin3.1.it an simulator for unix install it in windows m/c and you can use tar to extract the file from floppy to a windows m/c