perry@bluemtn.uucp (Perry Minyard (3MTA3)) (02/02/90)
In article <689@s5.Morgan.COM> amull@Morgan.COM (Andrew P. Mullhaupt) writes: > ...yadda..yadda..yadda >The CGI disks were included in one of the two boxes which contained my >development system diskettes. They are interestingly labelled as having >format n286, where all my other disks have been labelled n386. > I asked SCO about this (n286) and they told me there was no such thing as SCO CGI 386. >To whom it may concern department - > Recently, I needed to reinstall SCO UNIX System V/386 after adding >another hard drive. For some reason, the system backups wouldn't go >through, and I was faced with the ghastly proposition of reinstalling >off the distribution disks. After one or two false starts with the >infamous 'Error: Disk not in Drive' stupidity, I stumbled across a >workaround. All that seems to be necessary is to put each disk in the >drive, close the latch, reopen the latch, and reclose it. No more >errors. Funny you should mention this. I've had the same problems with my SCO XENIX 2.3.3 system. I can put a diskette in, and it wont read/write to it. I open, then close the latch, and it works fine. I thought it was a hardware problem, but maybe it isn't. > >Later, >Andrew Mullhaupt Later, Perry Minyard