>From: "Andrew D. Fant" <fant at pobox.com> >Reply-To: "Clustering, compute farming & distributed computing in life >science informatics" <bioclusters at bioinformatics.org> >To: "Clustering, compute farming & distributed computing in life science >informatics" <bioclusters at bioinformatics.org> >Subject: [Bioclusters] OT: GCG DVDs >Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:02:48 -0500 > >I know this is more than a little OT here, but it's my best bet to find >others >who are doing battle with GCG, so I apologize and beg indulgence: > >Has anyone else here been having trouble with the GCG Data DVDs that they >send >out every other month with database updates? It seems like every time I >get one >that Linux, Solaris, and MacOSX all have trouble reading. When I try and >just >read one that has errors with dd or cp, I get nondescript I/O errors. When >I >try and make a tarball to take the image elsewhere to work with, I get >errors >such as: >tar: ./gcggenbank/gb_pl_001.seq_z: File shrank by 22522503 bytes; padding >with zeros > >and the resulting tarball is useless. I've called Accelrys tech support >and >basically been told that if I have problems I ought to get a windows >machine and >use an FTP daemon to install from. Needless to say, this is less than >helpful >advice as I don't have a system that I can spare to put windows on (and I >am not >about to ask my boss for several hundred dollars for a system that I would >use >only once every other month, to run a server for a protocol we have banned >within our organization). Eventually, I get new DVDs, but I get a line >about >being the only one complaining and a lot of runaround about it. > >So, am I really a freak of nature, or should I stop expecting to get DVDs >that >can be read on the same platform the data is to be installed on? > >Andy > >-- >Andrew Fant | And when the night is cloudy | This space to let >Molecular Geek | There is still a light |---------------------- >fant at pobox.com | That shines on me | Disclaimer: I don't >Boston, MA | Shine until tomorrow, Let it be | even speak for myself > >_______________________________________________ >Bioclusters maillist - Bioclusters at bioinformatics.org >https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bioclusters