jdw@hpfijdw.HP.COM (Jeff Wood) (12/23/89)
I am using SCO Xenix 2.3.2 and VP/ix 1.0. I have a 5.25 and 3.5 floppy drives in my system. My problem occurs when I try to start vpix. I get an error message something to the effect of: Error 16 cannot open file "/dev/rfd1135ds18" for drive B The entries for floppy drives in my vpix.cnf are as follows: A /dev/rfd096 B /dev/rfd1135ds18 If I delete either one of the drive entries, it works fine. It seems I can only have one floppy drive even though the documentation says I can have two. Am I doing something wrong??? Jeff
scottd@pnet02.gryphon.com (Scott Deardorff) (12/25/89)
Jeff,
There is an update available on VP/ix that brings you up to rev 1.1
there may be a fix for your problem in that. The only other time I have
seen that is if the drive is open in another VP/ix session.
Regards,
Scott D.
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INET: scottd@pnet02.gryphon.combill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion) (12/27/89)
In article <15030004@hpfijdw.HP.COM> jdw@hpfijdw.HP.COM (Jeff Wood) writes: >I am using SCO Xenix 2.3.2 and VP/ix 1.0. I have a 5.25 >and 3.5 floppy drives in my system. My problem occurs when >I try to start vpix. I get an error message something to >the effect of: >Error 16 cannot open file "/dev/rfd1135ds18" for drive B I have found that at one time that long device spec was a killer. I just removed them and mknod'ed (is that a word?) new devices (one each for c and b) with a shorter name. I was getting problems where the name was too long and just shortening it fixed it. I don't know if this has been fixed but it WAS a problem. -- Bill Vermillion - UUCP: {uiucuxc,hoptoad,petsd}!peora!tarpit!bilver!bill : bill@bilver.UUCP