[8502] in Athena Bugs
/dev/floppy and tar on the DECstation 3100's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (wchuang@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 29 13:47:58 1991
From: wchuang@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 13:47:49 -0500
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
A user reported the following error:
> athena% tar cvf /dev/floppy .
> tar: Unable to open device /dev/rfloppc to get default partition info.
> Setting disk device size to 800 blocks
Given that:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 4 Oct 9 17:46 /dev/floppy -> rz4a
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root 5 Oct 9 17:46 /dev/rfloppy -> rrz4a
and he's using:
/bin/tar
I tried it myself on Hydrox, a DEC3100, with the same setup, and got:
> [/] root@hydrox-cookie# tar tvf /dev/floppy
> tar: Unable to open device /dev/rfloppc to get default parition info.
> Setting disk device size to 800 blocks
But:
tar tvf /dev/rz4a
works fine.
o William Chuang
o CSS Student Consultant
