oliveria@caen.engin.umich.edu (ROQUE DONIZETE DE OLIVEIRA) (12/08/90)
I'm having some problems adding a (Mitsubishi) floppy drive to an
apollo dn3000 running sr10.2 .
I wondered if there is any jumper that needs to be removed on this kind
of floppy drive. The floppy drive was installed as it came out of the box, following
the instructions in the "Installing Hardware Options in Your Domain series 3000".
It cannot invol or write data to the floppy diskette. I know the problem is
not the diskette for I've used the same diskette on another floppy drive (from NEC).
roque% ts /etc/invol
Ver Name Time Stamp File Name
--------------------------------------------------------------
c 1 os_invol_start 1990/06/22 1:21:18 EDT (Fri) /etc/invol
roque% /etc/invol
invol (initialize_volume), revision 10.3, June 22, 1990 1:20:24 am
...
...
Writing logical volume 1.
Formatting... % complete:
20
40
60
80
100
Writing all blocks... % complete:
Unable to write block: disk address = 1 ... status = 80008
This block should be added to the badspot list.
Unable to write block: disk address = 2 ... status = 80008
This block should be added to the badspot list.
Unable to write block: disk address = 3 ... status = 80008
This block should be added to the badspot list.
...
...
It thinks the "whole" floppy is a badspot.
roque% wbak -dev f -f 1 junk -l
Label:
Volume ID:
Owner ID: (no owner specified)
File number: 1
File section: 1
File ID: (no id specified)
File written: 1990/12/07 22:49:49 EDT
Starting write:
(file) "junk" written.
Write complete.
roque% rbak -dev f -f 1 -all -index
?(rbak) (open_input_volume) Unable to open volume. - invalid label record -- probably not written with WBAK (library/floppy seq i/o manager)
roque% wbak -dev f -f 2 junk -l
?(wbak) (open_output_volume) Unable to open volume. - invalid label record -- probably not written with WBAK (library/floppy seq i/o manager)
roque% rbak -dev f -f 1 -all
?(rbak) (open_input_volume) Unable to open volume. - invalid label record -- probably not written with WBAK (library/floppy seq i/o manager)
roque% mtvol f floppy.dir
?(mtvol) Unable to mount volume - bad disk format (OS/disk manager)
roque% tar -cvf /dev/fl0a junk
a junk 27 blocks
tar: tape write error: I/O error
roque% tar -tf /dev/fl0a
tar: tape read error: I/O error
Thanks for any help.
Roque Oliveira
oliveria@caen.engin.umich.edu
Computer Aided Engineering Network