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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



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