[32812] in Hotline Meeting
(4019) SGI Floptical prob
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John J Morey)
Tue Apr 2 06:15:29 1996
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 1996 06:15:25 EST
From: John J Morey <jjmorey@MIT.EDU>
"/usr/Cadmin/bin/cformat"
m66-080-29 (18.63.1.20) - "cformat" failed with "fail in performing
low level format" error message. floptical disk did not mount and copy
operation was unsuccessful.
w20-575-100 (18.187.0.121) - disk drive failed to latch disk. (I
suggest replacement of the floptical drive on this one.)
w20-575-107 (18.187.0.128) - "cformat" does not display a 20 meg
floptical format option. This could indicate something wrong with the
floptical drive, or it could indicate that a conventional floppy drive
(3.5in, DS-HD) is installed in this workstation instead of a floptical
drive. Such a thing is possible if the drive has a SCSI adapter, and
the drive will work satisfactorily with DS-HD media in MAC and PC
format, not indicating any problem until a floptical disk is
inserted.
This could be a hardware error. However, there is a known problem with
mediad in 5.2 that gives this message. Try using the command line
(you may also want to try killing mediad before this):
# mkfp -t dos -x /dev/rdsk/fds0d2.3.5.20m
(or whatever is appropriate for your system)
