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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: floppy drives and VP/ix
Message-ID: <419@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 89 17:33:53 GMT
References: <15030004@hpfijdw.HP.COM>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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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.




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