[38185] in Hotline Meeting
broken disk drive on faculty Athenized SGI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Katie Livingston)
Mon May 5 14:31:01 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 05 May 1997 14:30:56 EDT
From: Katie Livingston <katiel@MIT.EDU>
Hi guys,
Prof Rutledge's Athenized SGI has a broken floppy drive. Here's
the information I've been able to gather so far:
When he inserts a disk and attempt to cp files, he gets:
>cheindy3 [9]% cp xfour1.c /floppy
>UX:cp: ERROR: Cannot create /floppy/xfour1.c
>UX:cp: REASON: Permission denied
then when he types eject, he gets a console message "/floppy not mounted".
The disk chirps every few minutes, like it is repeatedly trying to do
something with the floppy (like mount it, maybe), but without success.
I (Katie) asked:
>Does the drive also make noise when no disk is in it? Are you able to
>manually eject the floppy with the paper clip trick? Also, did rebooting
>the machine have any effect?
He answered:
no noise when no floppy in.
'eject' or paper clip both work. with 'eject', I get '/floppy not mounted'
message on console. When I change to su and issue the command
'mount -t hfs /dev/rdsk/fds0d3.3.5hi /floppy' I get:
mount_hfs: can't initialize /dev/rdsk/fds0d3.3.5hi: No such file or directory
mount: giving up on:
/floppy
rebooting has no effect.
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Katie Livingston
Faculty Liaison Office
Academic Computing Services
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(617) 253-6690, 253-0115
