I know this is a long shot, but has anyone out there ever heard of any
utility made by QNX or any other third party, or even some guy in his
garage, that will allow you to access a QNX partition on your computer,
while you are logged in to Windows, even if it doesn’t mount it directly
but allows you to see it so you can send files to your Windows
Partition.
And before anyone suggests it, I know about using Samba in both
directions (which is useless if you only have one computer), and I know
you can mount FAT16 partitions while in QNX, but I’m not interested in
either of these options, like I said, I know it’s a long shot, but I
need it.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.
“Chris Nasr” <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote in message
news:3C0F95E1.BD28B99A@mechtronix.ca…
I know this is a long shot, but has anyone out there ever heard of any
utility made by QNX or any other third party, or even some guy in his
garage, that will allow you to access a QNX partition on your computer,
while you are logged in to Windows, even if it doesn’t mount it directly
but allows you to see it so you can send files to your Windows
Partition.
And before anyone suggests it, I know about using Samba in both
directions (which is useless if you only have one computer), and I know
you can mount FAT16 partitions while in QNX, but I’m not interested in
either of these options, like I said, I know it’s a long shot, but I
need it.
As far as I know (and i’ve been watching and searching for this )
it doesn’t exists.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.
Mario Charest <mcharest@clipzinformatic.com> wrote:
“Chris Nasr” <> cnasr@mechtronix.ca> > wrote in message
news:> 3C0F95E1.BD28B99A@mechtronix.ca> …
I know this is a long shot, but has anyone out there ever heard of any
utility made by QNX or any other third party, or even some guy in his
garage, that will allow you to access a QNX partition on your computer,
while you are logged in to Windows, even if it doesn’t mount it directly
but allows you to see it so you can send files to your Windows
Partition.
And before anyone suggests it, I know about using Samba in both
directions (which is useless if you only have one computer), and I know
you can mount FAT16 partitions while in QNX, but I’m not interested in
either of these options, like I said, I know it’s a long shot, but I
need it.As far as I know (and i’ve been watching and searching for this )
it doesn’t exists.
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing such a thing. I doubt there’s
too much of a market for it. How much would you be willing to pay, and
how many could I sell?
Cheers,
-RK
–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.
If you like free and are using linux, qnx4 fs is supported as a kernel
module and you can mount qnx partitions.
If you are willing to pay (using windows), I am sure someone would come
up with such a product.
Otherwise, you are out of luck.
Most people are either in above 1 or 3 catogary, that’s probaby why
there is no such product 
Chris Nasr <cnasr@mechtronix.ca> wrote:
I know this is a long shot, but has anyone out there ever heard of any
utility made by QNX or any other third party, or even some guy in his
garage, that will allow you to access a QNX partition on your computer,
while you are logged in to Windows, even if it doesn’t mount it directly
but allows you to see it so you can send files to your Windows
Partition.
And before anyone suggests it, I know about using Samba in both
directions (which is useless if you only have one computer), and I know
you can mount FAT16 partitions while in QNX, but I’m not interested in
either of these options, like I said, I know it’s a long shot, but I
need it.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Nasr
cnasr[at]mechtronix[dot]ca
Mechtronix Systems Inc.
–
My public key can be found at
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/liug/key.txt
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing such a thing. I doubt there’s
too much of a market for it. How much would you be willing to pay, and
how many could I sell?
You Robert? A fan of vi; writting a Windows application, I never
tough I’d live to see that 
)))))
Cheers,
-RK–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.
Mario Charest <mcharest@clipzinformatic.com> wrote:
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing such a thing. I doubt there’s
too much of a market for it. How much would you be willing to pay, and
how many could I sell?
You Robert? A fan of vi; writting a Windows application, I never
tough I’d live to see that >
Well, if I did write such a thing, I’d of course develop it under QNX
using VI, and then port VI to Windoze and then port the filesystem
And I’d use makefiles, not project files!
Yah, you’re right. What a stupid idea. Now, writing a filesystem for
QNX under VAX/VMS, so that you could take the SCSI disk with your QNX
partition and use it on VMS, that would be kewl!!
-RK
–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.
Previously, nospam93@parse.com wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
[…]
Yah, you’re right. What a stupid idea. Now, writing a filesystem for
QNX under VAX/VMS, so that you could take the SCSI disk with your QNX
partition and use it on VMS, that would be kewl!! >
If I understand SCSI correctly, moving a drive from one machine to another (to access the drive’s data) will only work if the SCSI adapters are similar. The actual format of the data written to the disk is not part of the SCSI spec.
-RK
–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.
Well, there is a directory on that disk that has some format that some
software will have to interpret.
But you’re right, if you can plug the drive into the SCSI adapter, then you
“should” be able to read the raw sectors. I.E. SCSI controller and dri ve
should negotiate with each other speedd, etc., etc.
–
Bill Caroselli – 1(530) 510-7292
Q-TPS Consulting
QTPS@EarthLink.net
“Pete DiMarco” <peted@ifspurity.NOSPAM.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.011211160442.182A@node1…
Previously, > nospam93@parse.com > wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
[…]
Yah, you’re right. What a stupid idea. Now, writing a filesystem for
QNX under VAX/VMS, so that you could take the SCSI disk with your QNX
partition and use it on VMS, that would be kewl!! >If I understand SCSI correctly, moving a drive from one machine to
another (to access the drive’s data) will only work if the SCSI adapters are
similar. The actual format of the data written to the disk is not part of
the SCSI spec.
-RK
–
Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com
Email my initials at parse dot com.
Previously, Pete DiMarco wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
If I understand SCSI correctly, moving a drive from one
machine to another (to access the drive’s data) will only
work if the SCSI adapters are similar.
This is not correct. In theory, any SCSI device hooked up
with proper termination could be read by the lowest common
denominator of SCSI which is a very slow Async mode. This
is controller independent.
The actual format of
the data written to the disk is not part of the SCSI spec.
This is quite correct. The SCSI interface will read blocks
of data and write them. Block size can be an issue. Every
magnetic media drive I’ve ever seen uses 512 byte blocks.
CD-ROMS however do not.
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com
“Mitchell Schoenbrun” <maschoen@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:Voyager.011212094753.528B@schoenbrun.com…
Previously, Pete DiMarco wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
If I understand SCSI correctly, moving a drive from one
machine to another (to access the drive’s data) will only
work if the SCSI adapters are similar.This is not correct. In theory, any SCSI device hooked up
with proper termination could be read by the lowest common
denominator of SCSI which is a very slow Async mode. This
is controller independent.The actual format of
the data written to the disk is not part of the SCSI spec.This is quite correct. The SCSI interface will read blocks
of data and write them. Block size can be an issue. Every
magnetic media drive I’ve ever seen uses 512 byte blocks.
If seen someone write on tape drive with 32k blocks.
CD-ROMS however do not.
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- > maschoen@pobox.com
Previously, Mitchell Schoenbrun wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
Previously, Pete DiMarco wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
If I understand SCSI correctly, moving a drive from one
machine to another (to access the drive’s data) will only
work if the SCSI adapters are similar.This is not correct. In theory, any SCSI device hooked up
with proper termination could be read by the lowest common
denominator of SCSI which is a very slow Async mode. This
is controller independent.
I could have sworn I read it in a SCSI FAQ a couple of
years ago, but I just went looking for the reference and
couldn’t find it. My apologies.
- Pete
Previously, Mario Charest wrote in qdn.public.qnx4:
If seen someone write on tape drive with 32k blocks.
Tapes can be variable blocked or fixed blocked. Still
doesn’t matter what controller you are using, however
with an ISA controler that works with DMA, you can find
yourself up against a 64K limit.
Mitchell Schoenbrun --------- maschoen@pobox.com