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Problem with drive on m11-116-4 ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Keith `M' Swartz)
Sat Jun 26 16:29:28 1993
To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 93 16:29:16 EDT
From: Keith `M' Swartz <solo26@Athena.MIT.EDU>
Transcript follows:
Whew. It's 4:20pm --> doswrite *pk
/dev/floppy: I/O error
can't open /dev/floppy for update
Whew. It's 4:20pm --> dosdir
/dev/floppy: I/O error
can't open /dev/floppy for input
Whew. It's 4:21pm --> mdir
init: open "/dev/rfloppy": I/O error
Whew. It's 4:21pm --> ls -l /dev/{r,}floppy
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 5 Jun 28 1992 /dev/rfloppy -> rfd0a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 4 Jun 28 1992 /dev/floppy -> fd0a
Whew. It's 4:22pm --> ls -l /dev/{r,}fd0a
crw-rw-rw- 1 root 83, 0 Jun 4 00:38 /dev/rfd0a
brw-rw-rw- 1 root 48, 0 Jun 4 00:40 /dev/fd0a
Each time the error occurred, console reported "fd failure: No media in drive."
-Keith M. Swartz
Information Systems CSS Consultant
