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Faulty floppy drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eduardo Kausel)
Thu Aug 31 13:43:21 1995
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:43:11 EDT
From: Eduardo Kausel <kausel@MIT.EDU>
I have in my room (1-271) a Sun Sparc Station connected to Athena. In recent
days, I have been unable to access the floppy drive (with DOS-formatted
diskettes). Despite the fact that I issue "add consult", when I give
commands such as mdir, or mcopy, I either receive a message stating that no
floopy device is coonected, or the system simply hangs (from which I can
recover with a CTRL-c). Since I have not changed anything in my boot files
that could interfere with the floppy drive, I suspect that there is hardware
malfunction.
Please advise me on how to proceed.
Edward Kausel
Professor of Civil Engineering
Room 1-271
3-5336
kausel@mit.edu
