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From: cattelan@mermaid.micro.umn.edu (Russell Cattelan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Problems with opticals, and npd
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Date: 18 Apr 91 03:42:58 GMT
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I have had two pressing problems bothering me lately and I am wondering if
anyone has some suggestions?


First we have had a few people (including myself) that have had
problems with the opticals disk not being reconized by the drive
anymore. Basically what happens is that when the disk is put in the
drive, it spins it up and then imediately spins it down and ejects it.

I really would like do get this data back.
Is there anyway to do something like a fsck on the disk to try and
repair it? One disk we even tried to format it, but since we can't
even get the machine to reconize the disk we haven't been able to get
to the format part.


The other problem is with "Edit" and printing everytime I try to print
a file from the edit program I get this message in /usr/adm/lpd-errors

Apr 16 09:05:59 leghorn npd[1062]: /usr/ucb/lpr of _Object.rtf - RTF -
 -  /Nex
tLibrary/Documentation/NextDev/Summaries/01_ClassSummary/CommonClasses
exited st
atus = 1
Apr 16 09:06:18 leghorn npd[1062]: /usr/ucb/lpr of _List.rtf - RTF -
-  /NextL
ibrary/Documentation/NextDev/Summaries/01_ClassSummary/CommonClasses
exited stat
us = 1

So far this is only happening with edit, other applications seem to
work fine. Going into /usr/spool/appkit and lpr`ing the file
directly works so it doesn't seem to be a bad postscript file.

I am not using the standard printing package, so I though it may be a
problem with lpr but since it only breaks with edit and the setup work
just fine under 1.0, I was wondering if this is a know bug in npd or edit?


-Russell Cattelan
cattelan@cs.umn.edu