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From: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Floptical upside-down cake
Message-ID: <348@wet.UUCP>
Date: 30 Jul 89 21:22:50 GMT
References: <246300027@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: epsilon@wet.UUCP (Eric P. Scott)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <246300027@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> dpd00609@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>Has anyone besides me noticed that it is EASY to insert the floptical upside
>down?

When we got our first two cubes, one of the 0.8 disks had its
labels "reversed" so you had to "stick it in upside down."  If
you look carefully at the cartridge itself, you'll see that it IS
labeled.  Since netboot worked fine in 0.9 (with a little kernel
poking, but that's another story), we don't have much use for
flopticals other than backup, and even that's questionable...
it's not hard to back up over the network to a SCSI tape drive on
an existing Sun.  Flopticals are small and expensive compared to
tape cartridges, and the "data fade" questions haven't been
adequately answered.
					-=EPS=- / SFSU