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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:AMIGA NOTES
Notice:Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:HYDRA::MOORE
Created:Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5378
Total number of notes:38326

4393.0. "DEC 3.5 inch disk drives and Amiga floppies?" by SAC::EXTON_M (My 2 ECU's worth) Thu Jan 03 1991 11:44

    I expect that the answer to the following is no and also in this
    file, but I can't find it, so...
    
    VAXstations come with 3.5 inch floppy drives. Can these read or write
    Amiga floppies in any way using standard or special software?
    
    Secondly, are there any drivers on the Amiga for DEC SCSi devices
    (such as disk and TK drives)?
    
    Malcolm
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4393.1DEC Tape supportELWOOD::PETERSThu Jan 03 1991 13:2011
	There is software available that will control a DEC TZK10 SCSI
 tapedrive. I have used the software to create TAR format tapes that ULTRIX
 can read and write. There is also VMS software avaibale to handle TAR tapes.

	I'm working on changes to the tape software to support TZK30/TZK50,
TLZ04 ( DAT ), and 8mm exabyte drives. I expect to have something working in
a couple of weeks.


		Steve Peters
4393.2ECAFTB::COBURNGrowing older, but not up...Thu Jan 03 1991 13:2211
There isn't any software that allows VMS to read Amiga floppies or Amiga to read
ODS-II floppies. However, There is software on the Amiga that can read/write 
MS-DOS floppies (720K - 3 �" floppies) and there is software (Soft-PC) that 
reads and writes MS-DOS floppies on a VAXstation with a (?) drive. Sorry forget
which floppy is the one that works...

Most of the newest SCSI device controllers and drivers for the Amiga will be
to use the RZ hard drives - see several notes about this in the file. Also, I
believe that one person has gotten a TKZ50 to work.

John
4393.3ECAFTB::COBURNGrowing older, but not up...Thu Jan 03 1991 13:257
Oops - note collision - 

I'll also take this opportunity to request that BOMBE update its DECnet node
database - I am posting from CLOVAX (34.172) or CLO (34.661) as the cluster 
alias.

John
4393.4Pointers?SAC::EXTON_MMy 2 ECU's worthSun Jan 06 1991 09:4411
    .2:
    
    Does this mean it is not possible to write an driver on a VAX for
    Amiga disks (perhaps because of the one sector per track design)
    or no one has written one yet?
    
    .*:
    Any pointers to the s/w?
    
    Cheers,
    Malcolm
4393.5should be...WJG::GUINEAUSun Jan 06 1991 10:0013
    
>    Does this mean it is not possible to write an driver on a VAX for
>    Amiga disks (perhaps because of the one sector per track design)
>    or no one has written one yet?
>    

I would think it's possible since they did it for the MSDOS disks, however
the low level support required might be buried in the controller's ROM
and not accessable from "driver level". Then again the port driver might do 
it all.

john
4393.6Issuette...SAC::EXTON_MMy 2 ECU's worthMon Jan 07 1991 10:519
    Further to .2:
    
    SoftPC purports to read and write IBM PC format disks, but this only
    extends to 1.44MB disks. Support for 720K floppies is read-only.
    
    I assume that the h/w on the Amiga can only run to the low-density
    disks. 
    
    Malcolm