[18853] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.20: mtools
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Abby Fox)
Mon Mar 5 10:47:06 2001
Message-Id: <200103051546.KAA00838@whirlwind.mit.edu>
To: ashish@MIT.EDU
cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:46:48 -0500
From: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
Were you able to use your disk on another machine?
The errors look like the machine wasn't recognizing the drive at all,
nothing to do with your disk; if the drive is properly attached, at boot
time the system should set the right permissions on /dev/sda (and load
the necessary kernel modules). In general, mtools does work with a
zip-100 disk in a zip-250 drive on linux; my guess is that if you'd
tried a zip-250 disk on this machine it would have failed in the same
way.
In any case, I'll ask hotline to check on m12-182-11 for loose cables or
other hardware problems, but let me know if you have more information.
Abby Fox
Academic Computing
>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:'
