[34560] in Hotline Meeting
SGI floppy drive problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard J. Barbalace)
Fri Aug 30 20:48:30 1996
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 20:48:24 EDT
From: "Richard J. Barbalace" <rjbarbal@MIT.EDU>
A user came into SIPB tonight complaining that the SGI workstations
in the cluster would not let him read/write from floppy disks.
I confirmed that the DOS disk in question was not write-protected,
and could be read from and written to on Sparcs. Placing the disk
in the floppy drive in an SGI (w20-575-63) did not show the disk
icon on the SGI desktop, and the SGI did not recognize that a disk
was in the drive. The drive did not appear to be mounted (mount
did not show /floppy), and /floppy appeared to be an empty directory,
even when the disk had files on it.
+ Richard
