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Radra - 18 May 2005 20:11 GMT

How can I read the 3.5 inch Sun floppy discs on a computer? Windows
will not recognize them. Also, how can I store car data I enter into
the Interrogator onto a disc so I won't have to manually enter it ever
again?

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mjt - 18 May 2005 21:40 GMT

("Radra" <basket4misc@yahoo.com>) scribbled:

> How can I read the 3.5 inch Sun floppy discs on a computer? Windows
> will not recognize them. Also, how can I store car data I enter into
> the Interrogator onto a disc so I won't have to manually enter it ever
> again?

... winders is brain-dead - sun uses a Unix filesystem
that winders does not understand, hence your issue. unless,
of course, they did format them with an MS-DOS type of
filesystem - if so, then maybe the floppy is goofed or
the floppy drive is out of whack.

how to read it? maybe get a Linux LIVE-runnable CD, such
as Knoppix and boot to it, the mount the floppy ...

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pater - 19 May 2005 12:06 GMT

All that stuff is protected. You can't read it on anything but a sun
machine. Tried this once with parts catalogue discs from work that are
updated every month & couldn't read them either. Put in there by the
provider so they can't be pirated, common practice.

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