[42055] in Hotline Meeting
Zip drives in m56
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cyrus R Eyster)
Mon Feb 23 22:56:41 1998
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 22:56:37 EST
From: Cyrus R Eyster <cyruse@MIT.EDU>
Hi. I was trying to move some stuff from my Athena account to a zip
disk on m56-129-29, but kept getting the following result:
m56-129-29:/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/c/y/cyruse> mdir z:
scsi status=ff
scsi status=ff
SCMD_READ: Error 0
scsi status=ff
SCMD_READ: Error 0
init Z: could not read boot sector
Cannot initialize 'Z:'
m56-129-29:/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/c/y/cyruse>
I had remembered to "add -f mtools", and the cables seemed securely
attached. I had, on the other hand, dropped or stepped on
the disk, cracking the clear plastic case I keep it in. To
make sure it wasn't the disk, I moved to m56-129-27, and was going
to try again, but realized that the drive was off. I looked under the
table to see if anything was unplugged, and there was a zip drive plug
sitting there. I saw no unused sockets, so I made sure that the people
on either side of me weren't using their drives and switched my drive's
plug with one of theirs. Sorry - I realized this might be a bad idea later,
and m56-129-27 still didn't recognize the drive, presumably since it wasn't
on when the computer was last rebooted. Anyway, I moved to another machine
and things were fine.
My thoughts, in case you are interested:
The zip drive on m56-129-29 might not work.
You might be one socket short in the vicinity of m56-129-27.
(Actually, I looked again, and there seem to be enough sockets, but I
didn't want to deal with unplugging and plugging zip drives and making
sure machines knew the drives were attached and on.)
Cyrus
