Can't backup to floppy
Karl Denninger
karl at ddsw1.UUCP
Sun Sep 18 01:17:41 AEST 1988
In article <547 at micropen> dave at micropen (David F. Carlson) writes:
>In article <913 at cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS>, will at cygnet.CYGNETSYSTEMS (Will Nelson) writes:
>> The shit hit the fan today.
>> MICOM-Interlan NP626,
>> Locus Merge
>>
>> That's right, you got it: I can't back the &ENCD%$@K!! system
>> up to floppy with a network/Locus Merge kernel from the console.
>Sir:
>You have absolutely no right to pollute this forum with *your*
>"fucking bullshit." You bought a multi-vendor system without
>any support from any of your vendors or a qualified support organization
>like a system integrator. You obviously don't possess the capability
>of debugging the problem in a rational manner.
I see.
Well, I can say this:
If I had just purchased software which was advertised to *work*, and
found that one of the fundamental operations (ie: writing to floppy)
didn't work due to someone mangling one (or more) of the drivers,
I'd be more than a little pissed off!
The "solution" which was found is a non-solution. What we're talking about
here is a simple failure of QC. Having the customer boot a different kernel
to write floppy disks isn't "debugging" or lack of knowing debugging
procedures, it's an admission that the operating system is _BROKEN_, and
broken in a serious manner.
One question for the gentelman who has had the problems:
Is this the _new_ version of DOSMERGE that Mr. Plocher said wouldn't
ship until _all_ the bugs were out, and it _worked_?
If not, then you've been warned in this forum many times prior to now. If
so then Mr. Plocher's QC attempt on the new MERGE kernel was a dismal failure.
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