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To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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Subject: Re: installation 2.1.6 
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org>
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 18 Dec 1996 07:57:43 PST."
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Hi, Reference:
> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> 
> Subject: Re: installation 2.1.6 
> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 07:57:43 -0800 
> Message-id: <4892.850924663@time.cdrom.com> 
>
> > Installing 2.1.6 on a new box ...
> > When I had no tape in the st0 drive 
> > there was an error message about no tape drives available,
> > so I started thinking hardware fault .. not so ...
> > error message is misleading, it should have said no _media_ available.
> 
> Well, it *is* clearly documented as a prerequisite in the installation
> guide that you have the tape in, so it's also reasonable to say that
> you should have never seen this message. ;-)

You'r surely not suggesting I read a manual before plugging & playing ? ;-)
(OK, so I did't plug tape before playing, Mea Culpa :-)

> The problem is that the way things work now, lacking a trusted device
> registration mechanism, it's not possible for me to tell the "tape
> drive, no tape" case apart from the "no tape drive at all" case.

Fair enough, maybe you could slightly generalise the err message though,
to the tune of `drive or media not avail' or some such ?
> 
> 						Jordan
> 
> 
Julian
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Julian H. Stacey	jhs@freebsd.org  	http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/