[23201] in Athena Bugs
Re: Zip drives are horribly broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Jul 24 07:55:31 2003
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:55:29 -0400
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
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Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> wrote on Thu, 24 Jul 2003
at 04:39:04 -0400 in <200307240839.h6O8d4Gk029497@bart-savagewood.mit.edu>:
> Suns w/USB zip drives - Currently not working, but for known reasons.
> When 9.2.N+1 comes out with an entry for rpc.smserverd in
> /etc/inet/inetd.conf, these will start working again, and will automount
> on /rmdisk like they're supposed to.
I'm puzzled why lack of rpc.smserverd prevents manual dd-ing; maybe
I did something dumb?
> To be honest, I'm not sure having the drives around is doing anyone a
> favor at this point, but whether we remove them is a question for owls.
Others have respnoded saying they're "going away anyhow."
I don't know what we're supposed to tell users with zip drives though.
I suppose it'll be, "Well, Athena decided to ditch them. We have one
on that machine over there *points*..."
--jhawk
