Don't forget that at 6.x and above you can interrupt the boot cycle from hard disk with a CTRL-C and it will give you the "floppy boot" menu that we all know and love.

Graham

-----Original Message----- From: Rob Windsor [mailto:windsor@adc.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:18 PM To: Thomas.L.White@chase.com Cc: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Re: floppy shuffle

On Wed, 09 May 2001 15:54:20 EDT, Thomas.L.White@chase.com wrote:

> Wodda bunch O'Whiners! > how often do you actually boot from floppies! > oh- maybe once at upgrade.

yeah, big "maybe" there. :>

I don't think I've ever booted from floppy during an upgrade (except for that one time the upgrade triggered a filesystem-related bug -- it went corrupt and I had to run WAFL_check).

More to the point, when I have to perform a WAFL_check under the gun, I'd rather not have to dig around for a fistful of floppies required to boot the filer for maint. Now we are FOUR TIMES more likely to encounter an aborted boot due to a floppy infected with bitrot. It is time to whine.

(How many folks keep a box of fresh, new diskettes around specifically for new revisions of ONTAP? How many just grab the first N unassigned floppies they see laying around their desk? How many use one floppy and re-image it on-the-fly as the filer asks for it? :)

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