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Re: SGI disk drive doesn't work

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy C Daniel)
Thu Nov 5 00:58:24 1998

Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:58:21 -0500
From: Jeremy C Daniel <jdaniel@MIT.EDU>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[45709] in Hotline Meeting"

I believe the machine in question is w20-575-83.  /floppy was
nonexistant, and when we tried to use mtools It tried to look for 
a non-existant hardware device in /dev/rdsk/

>In W20, I was using an SGI.  After inserting a floppy, I couldn't 
>access it...either to list it's contents or even to eject it.  I had
>to use a paper clip to eject.  The MIT UPC code sticker says
>MIT 0329707.  I hope that helps.  Thanks.

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