[39769] in Hotline Meeting
Athena hotline: will you ever pay attention?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eduardo Kausel)
Thu Sep 25 14:44:58 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: rlbras@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:44:54 EDT
From: Eduardo Kausel <kausel@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
for nearly a year now, I have been sending messages and leaving
voice mail problem reports to you about my workstation, yet to no avail!
Will you finally please take some action? For details, see below.
E. Kausel
Professor of Civil Engineering
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Subject: workstation damages floppy disks
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:13:36 EST
Hi,
I have a Sun SparcClassic (Serial No. MIT-0282129) "Pulse" located in
my office (1-271). From time to time, I must transfer files from/to this
machine from my PC sitting next to it. During the past year or so, I have
often (but not always) experienced problems with the workstation in that it
damages diskettes and renders them useless. Furthermore, I am absolutely
certain that it is the workstation and not the PC that causes the problem,
because I encounter the same problem regardless of what PC I use to carry
out the file transfer.
The symptoms during an errror are as follows:
- I insert a (PC formatted) diskette, either blank or with files,
- next, I "mcopy" a file to the diskette
- during transfer, the worlstation reports an error message, and stops
- the diskette drives becomes unreachable from the window used
to carry out the transfer (including the "eject" command)
- the diskette becomes unreadable in the PC. Use of Norton Utilities
to attempt recovering the diskette often fails, with reports
that the boot sector is irreparably damaged.
Having already lost a box full of diskettes, I need to take corrective action.
Eduardo Kausel
1-271
3-5336
