[18848] in Athena Bugs
linux 8.4.20: mtools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ashish Mishra)
Sat Mar 3 16:49:33 2001
Message-Id: <200103032149.QAA19969@m12-182-11.mit.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 16:49:14 -0500
From: Ashish Mishra <ashm@MIT.EDU>
System name: m12-182-11.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 8.4.20
Display type: XFree86 3.3.6 SVGA
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: fvwm2 -f ~/.fvwm2rc-baans
What were you trying to do?
The machine has a 250M Zip Drive
Okay.. if I try to use the mtools commands to read (100M) zip disk, I get
What's wrong:
mdir z:
Can't open /dev/sda: Permission denied
Cannot initialize 'Z:'
mdir y:
Can't open /dev/sda: Permission denied
Cannot initialize 'Y:'
mdir x:
Can't open /dev/sda: Permission denied
Cannot initialize 'X:'
If I try it again as root, I get
bash# /mit/mtools/bin/mdir x:
Can't open /dev/sda: No such device
Cannot initialize 'X:'
bash# /mit/mtools/bin/mdir y:
Can't open /dev/sda: No such device
Cannot initialize 'Y:'
bash# /mit/mtools/bin/mdir z:
Can't open /dev/sda: No such device
Cannot initialize 'Z:'
Even though the disk is obviously in the drive and I've waited for
several seconds after inserting it.
It's a linux box and doesn't understand voldstart
What should have happened:
Should have been able to access the disk since the drives are supposed
to be backwards compatible.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
http://web.mit.edu/answers/workstations/ws_mtools_zip.html
http://web.mit.edu/answers/workstations/ws_zip_common_errors.html
