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Re: IDL access to MSDOS-formatted JAZ drive under Solaris [message #16369]

Mon, 19 July 1999 00:00

Liam Gumley
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Registered: November 1994

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Fred Knight wrote:
>
> I have a set of large files (@ 200-500 MB) on JAZ disks and want to access the
> data in the files under Solaris. Are there any IDL tools to do this? The other
> options I have are the following:
>
> 1. Mount JAZ drive on Linux system and export the filesystem (slow; burdens
> network)
> 2. Pay the disk space price and copy the files to Unix using the Mtools
> available under Solaris (wastes disk space and time)
>
> If anybody has dealt with this or has other possibilities, I'd appreciate
> hearing them, especially some way to use IDL's associate variable or some other
> IDL-based method.

Fred,

I think you'll have to mount the disks before IDL will recognize them.
Have you looked into the mount_pcfs command in Solaris? It seems like it
might support a Jaz drive (although I haven't tried it).

Cheers,
Liam.

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Liam E. Gumley
Space Science and Engineering Center, UW-Madison
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/~gumley

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