Are the floppy disk that reside in the CMDU on an 81C just plain off the shelf floppies or are they propietary? The sytem I have has a CMDU in both CPU 0 and CPU 1. The floppy in CPU 0 is labled CE backup and the floppy in CPU 1 is labled PE backup. I am trying to get additional copies of the backups to keep off site. Is the same data stored on both the floppies? When I look at the history file I see that the cores swap each night and at the end of the backup process it says successfully backed up to floppy.
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CMDU floppy disk question
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bigindian65
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2D double density should work.
Mato' Was'aka
Mato' Was'aka
Along with replacing them once a year or so (with plain off-the-shelf floppies), I use WinImage program to keep copies from various dates.
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SpelingChampeon
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Standard floppies should be fine. I would highly recommend using win98 as your OS if you are going to format the floppy. A few years back, a Nortel engineer told me that Win2000 and XP were not native DOS, and should be avoided when formatting.
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Do you have to format the floppys first? The reason I ask is that I had an issue over the weekend. The 81 C was running on CPU 0 on Friday. Friday during the day I put in a new floppy right out of the box in the CMDU in CPU 1. Early saturday morning I tried calling a phone number on the PBX and got a busy,so I new we had an issue, sure enough when I drove to work to check it out the PBX was down ,no dial tone. All the lights were on on both CPU's I removed the floppy I had put in Friday and replaced it with the original. I then had to do an INI. The system came back in full service. My assumption is that the problem occured during the midnight routiunes during the CPU switchover. Do you think this was a coincdence or as I am thinking there was a problem with the new floppy? Although I still can't explain why the wrong floopy would cause this issue. Any ideas?
phonejack99
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No reason to format them first.
Check your errors both before the lockup and during the restart to determine what your problem might be.
Check your errors both before the lockup and during the restart to determine what your problem might be.
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