where will you mount your CD rom drive ? or did you just want to buy a new filer with a CD drive installed. Maybe I forgot to mention that I found a fresh box of floppies at the local QwikEMart. I have alphas and intels as well. I keep my current OS and the previous - just in case. Maybe I would complain as well if I ever used them after the upgrade.
sorrrrrry
tw
"Mr. G. D. Geen" geen@ti.com@mathworks.com on 05/09/2001 04:57:14 PM
Sent by: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
To: toasters@mathworks.com cc: Subject: Re: floppy shuffle
I have talked to my PSE about this before. When we went to two floppies, this wasn't so bad. Now we are three floppies and I suggested a bootable CD-ROM drive. Maybe in the next generation shelf. I would rather burn a CD as I, too, have trouble coughing up enough floppies for this operation. Consider, also, that the F700 series is Alpha based and the F800 series is Intel based. This means two sets of floppies for me. Fortunately my F520s are going back on lease and I do not have any more F330s. I could not even imagine an NAFS1400 today -- Yow!
Personally, I do not see this as whining but a request to the Lords of NetApp.
For OS upgrades, one only need transfer the system files and perform an "download" then reboot from HDD after that. No biggie there. When running diagnostics on the mother board and having to run across the data centre becomes a pain, though I do get my exercise in for the day. The Victoria Bitters Physical Fitness operating system. :-)
My $.02. Who get's the change?
-gdg
Rob Windsor wrote:
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? :)
Rob++
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At 02:00 it is hard to find anything even at a QuikEMart. It is those emergency situation when it is most inconvenient. I try to keep a set of bootable floppies on hand in the Data Centre but someone keeps running off with them. I have taken to keeping a complete set of bootable floppies in my Laptop bag. At least this way I will always have them when I need them. I would still like to see a bootable CD-ROM in the next version of the shelf.
With 30 filers, I will need the floppies at least occasionally during the year. BTW, I never use floppies during OS upgrades. It is unnecessary.
Sincerely,
G D Geen
Thomas.L.White@chase.com wrote:
where will you mount your CD rom drive ? or did you just want to buy a new filer with a CD drive installed. Maybe I forgot to mention that I found a fresh box of floppies at the local QwikEMart. I have alphas and intels as well. I keep my current OS and the previous - just in case. Maybe I would complain as well if I ever used them after the upgrade.
sorrrrrry
tw
"Mr. G. D. Geen" geen@ti.com@mathworks.com on 05/09/2001 04:57:14 PM
Sent by: owner-toasters@mathworks.com
To: toasters@mathworks.com cc: Subject: Re: floppy shuffle
I have talked to my PSE about this before. When we went to two floppies, this wasn't so bad. Now we are three floppies and I suggested a bootable CD-ROM drive. Maybe in the next generation shelf. I would rather burn a CD as I, too, have trouble coughing up enough floppies for this operation. Consider, also, that the F700 series is Alpha based and the F800 series is Intel based. This means two sets of floppies for me. Fortunately my F520s are going back on lease and I do not have any more F330s. I could not even imagine an NAFS1400 today -- Yow!
Personally, I do not see this as whining but a request to the Lords of NetApp.
For OS upgrades, one only need transfer the system files and perform an "download" then reboot from HDD after that. No biggie there. When running diagnostics on the mother board and having to run across the data centre becomes a pain, though I do get my exercise in for the day. The Victoria Bitters Physical Fitness operating system. :-)
My $.02. Who get's the change?
-gdg
Rob Windsor wrote:
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Mr. G. D. Geen -
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