[19019] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.25: black dells with non-working floppy driver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Coventry)
Tue Jul 17 00:36:04 2001
To: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Alex Coventry <alex_c@MIT.EDU>
Date: 17 Jul 2001 00:36:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: Angie Kelic's message of "Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:42:43 -0400"
Message-ID: <etdn164xjd9.fsf@quiche-lorraine.mit.edu>
> What were you trying to do? read a DOS floppy with mtools on one of
> the black dells in the w20 cluster
>
> What's wrong: It failed with a 'device not configured' error on the
> floppy drive
fwiw, the black dell in the SIPB office, which is running athena 9, can
read floppies, so I guess this problem will just disappear when 9 gets
released.
Alex.