[23203] in Athena Bugs
Re: Zip drives are horribly broken
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Jul 24 08:36:05 2003
Message-Id: <200307241236.h6OCa3CE021104@brad-majors.mit.edu>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
cc: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>, hotline@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2003 07:55:29 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 08:36:03 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
>> I'm puzzled why lack of rpc.smserverd prevents manual dd-ing; maybe
>> I did something dumb?
Not sure. I didn't try dd'ing on a machine with the broken inetd.conf
configuration; I just verified that automounting behaved correctly on a
fixed machine.
>> 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*..."
I'd start by encouraging people to migrate their data to CD-R; Zip
drives seem to be going the way of the dodo in the world at large and
while I suspect we can support them on Suns a while longer (since it's
easy) they're probably not a good long term storage bet.
Garry
