🚀 go-pugleaf

Hello netters!
  I've got a PLI SuperFloppy connected to my 030 cube. How do I eject
a floppy out of it? Here's what I'm doing:

   I have some stuff tar'd to a floppy that I want to untar to my cube.
   So I do the tar xvf /dev/rsd1h thing.
   Wait for the panel to ask to insert the disk. When I do this, the
     Workspace does not look at the disk since I'm not really mounting
     it, I'm just feeding it to tar.
   When tar is finished, the floppy doesn't show up on the File Viewer
     as it shouldn't since it's not in a file system format.
   Now I want to eject the floppy and stick in a NeXT formatted floppy
     so I can copy stuff to the new floppy using the Work Space.

Two problems:
   1) Can't eject the original (tar) floppy. Since the WorkSpace doesn't
      know about it, I can't cmd-e it or drag it to the recycler.
      /etc/disk -e doesn't work either. It reports:
         unknown disk type: PLI SUPERFLOPPY   (or something to that effect).
 
      So I grab the ol' paper clip and manually eject the floppy.

   2) I stick in the Next formatted disk but the automount thing doesn't
      kick in, so I can't get it to mount the new floppy. Even /etc/mount
      doesn't work (even logged in as root).

      Also, we are back to problem #1 since I can't eject the new disk either.

Questions:
   How do I eject the disk after a tar.
   Is there a better way to do this?

Alvin Jee
alvin@cse.ucsc.edu

PS checked the FAQ's already. Didn't find any help.... :(