[23170] in Athena Bugs
Zip drives are horribly broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Tue Jul 22 15:54:15 2003
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:54:13 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200307221954.PAA06535@multics.mit.edu>
To: hotline@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
I conclude that essentially no zip drives in the W20 cluster work properly
from a user standpoint -- "SUCK."
A number of them are physically damaged (missing eject buttons, at least).
On Suns, while iostat -E reports the drive, I cannot prtvtoc or
dd from it.
On Linux machines, the drive referred to by mtoolstest is not
the same drive referred to in /etc/fstab, and mtools do not work.
The /etc/fstab drive cannot be mounted as non-root, but can be
successfully mounted as root, which is not reasonable to expect
users to do.
I think someone from dev needs to actually go to a cluster and look.
The current state is pretty sad.
--jhawk
