[8793] in Hotline Meeting
Re: m11-113-5 has no /dev/floppy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Fri Apr 24 14:31:24 1992
From: lwvanels@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 92 14:31:12 -0400
To: tompalka@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU, "Craig W Griffin" <cwgriff@Athena.MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: [8791]
Reply-To: lwvanels@MIT.EDU
Tom-
RS/6000's do not have /dev/floppy; their floppy drive is accessed via
/dev/fd0 (or /dev/rfd0 for the raw device). The "/dev/floppy" that exists
on the machine in the office is just an ordinary file, not a device; I would
guess someone tried to write to the floppy as root using "/dev/floppy", and
ended up creating the plain text file instead. There is no problem with the
machine m11-113-5, but instead with the junk file on the rs/6000 in the
office.
-Lucien
