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- From: ajee@cad607.intel.com (Alvin Jee ~)
- Subject: Ejecting a PLI floppy
- Message-ID: <Bu14Lp.BCw@nntp-sc.Intel.COM>
- Sender: ajee@cad607 (Alvin Jee ~)
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- Organization: Intel Corporation, Design Technology
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 01:10:36 GMT
- Lines: 36
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- Hello netters!
- I've got a PLI SuperFloppy connected to my 030 cube. How do I eject
- a floppy out of it? Here's what I'm doing:
-
- I have some stuff tar'd to a floppy that I want to untar to my cube.
- So I do the tar xvf /dev/rsd1h thing.
- Wait for the panel to ask to insert the disk. When I do this, the
- Workspace does not look at the disk since I'm not really mounting
- it, I'm just feeding it to tar.
- When tar is finished, the floppy doesn't show up on the File Viewer
- as it shouldn't since it's not in a file system format.
- Now I want to eject the floppy and stick in a NeXT formatted floppy
- so I can copy stuff to the new floppy using the Work Space.
-
- Two problems:
- 1) Can't eject the original (tar) floppy. Since the WorkSpace doesn't
- know about it, I can't cmd-e it or drag it to the recycler.
- /etc/disk -e doesn't work either. It reports:
- unknown disk type: PLI SUPERFLOPPY (or something to that effect).
-
- So I grab the ol' paper clip and manually eject the floppy.
-
- 2) I stick in the Next formatted disk but the automount thing doesn't
- kick in, so I can't get it to mount the new floppy. Even /etc/mount
- doesn't work (even logged in as root).
-
- Also, we are back to problem #1 since I can't eject the new disk either.
-
- Questions:
- How do I eject the disk after a tar.
- Is there a better way to do this?
-
- Alvin Jee
- alvin@cse.ucsc.edu
-
- PS checked the FAQ's already. Didn't find any help.... :(
-