[1652] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Ultra 5 and 10 colordepth issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Tue Feb 9 23:09:28 1999
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 22:28:20 -0500
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@MIT.EDU>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, ccount@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199902092313.SAA10232@whirlwind>
At 06:13 PM 2/9/99 -0500, Abby Fox wrote:
:)in 56-114, then encountered problems with the machine (details below)
:)and ended up (gulp) pulling the plug. Hotline is going to look it,
:)but I wanted to double-check with you all about whether you think the
:)specs above are out of bounds? FWIW, the man page says:
:)
Could you please explain to him that once he has been forced to crash a
machine by pulling the plug, he should not just blithely plug it in and hope
it is working? Instead, I'd recommend a reinstall.
Frankly, after three hard crashes, I wouldn't trust it. Yes, fsck does the
best it can, but...
mike