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Re: problems with ZIP drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Luo Wei)
Thu May 18 16:36:18 2000
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 16:36:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Luo Wei <luowei@math.mit.edu>
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Problem solved. The reason is:
The electrical source is not properly pluged into the outlet.
best,
Wei
On Thu, 18 May 2000, Luo Wei wrote:
>
> Dear Sir:
>
> I met a problem with a ZIP drive on an athena SGI workstation.
> Specifically the machine is m56-129-30.mit.edu. I insert a zip disk when
> it is still loading the start up enviroment after I logged in. Then the
> machine doesn't know there is a zip disk in the drive. I have attached
> mtools. "eject /zip" is not helpful. Everything doesn't work out as
> before. By the way the green light is not on as the one on a zip drive
> attached to another computer. I don't know whether it is an operational
> mistake or hardware out of order. Anyway, I want my disk back.
>
> best,
>
> Wei
>
>
>
