[15251] in Athena Bugs
Re: sparc 8.1.7: floppy handling oddness
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Sat Jul 12 13:04:06 1997
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Jul 1997 11:57:44 EDT."
<199707111557.LAA01238@bobbi-harlow.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 13:03:58 EDT
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
I did some quick checking here with classic, sparc4, and sparc5
running a mix of 8.0 or 8.1.7 which indicates that "eject floppy"
works, and the table shown by "eject -n" does not include this
option. (sorry, I don't think I managed to get the full set, but I got
enough to be reasonably sure)
I suspect that the original problem was either peculiar to that disk
(I've had trouble with disks getting the sliding panel stuck in the
drive--which "ejects" but the disk doesn't come out) or with the
drive.
Basically, I think
(1) that drive or floppy was quirky
(2) "eject floppy" works fine
(3) what the media_printaliases subroutine displays does not appear to
be an exhaustive list of possible names when vold is running, as
floppy and cdrom are not shown but are available.
I hope that addresses most of the issues raised.
more on eject -n...
The subroutine that actually prints the media alias table is called
media_printaliases() in the volmgt library. it depends on whether
vold is running or not as to exactly what list of aliases it returns.
However, with or without vold running, floppy seems to be accepted
and operated on.
(incidentally, cdrom falls into the same magic -- not listed as an
alias with vold running, but happily used)
with vold running:
null return from media_oldaliases
and here's the list as currently known
fd -> floppy0
fd0 -> floppy0
fd1 -> floppy1
diskette -> floppy0
diskette0 -> floppy0
diskette1 -> floppy1
rdiskette -> floppy0
rdiskette0 -> floppy0
rdiskette1 -> floppy1
cd -> cdrom0
cd0 -> cdrom0
cd1 -> cdrom1
sr -> cdrom0
sr0 -> cdrom0
/dev/sr0 -> cdrom0
/dev/rsr0 -> cdrom0
with vold turned off
media_oldaliases said:floppy -> /dev/rdiskette
and here's the list as currently known
fd -> /dev/rdiskette
fd0 -> /dev/rdiskette
fd1 -> /dev/rdiskette1
diskette -> /dev/rdiskette
diskette0 -> /dev/rdiskette0
diskette1 -> /dev/rdiskette1
rdiskette -> /dev/rdiskette
rdiskette0 -> /dev/rdiskette0
rdiskette1 -> /dev/rdiskette1
floppy -> /dev/rdiskette
floppy0 -> /dev/rdiskette0
floppy1 -> /dev/rdiskette1
cd -> /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
cdrom -> /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
cd0 -> /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
sr -> /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
sr0 -> /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
/dev/sr0 -> /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
/dev/rsr0 -> /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
c0t6d0s2 -> /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2
Mike
