[2255] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Minutes of our 2000-05-10 meeting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri May 12 19:02:33 2000
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, release-team@MIT.EDU, rbasch@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 2000 18:00:09 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 19:02:25 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> I'd recommend not wasting effort on disabling the old SGI
> work-around, unless there is an appreciable number of those
> 89 machines who are in the Beta cluster.
Two of the machines in the Indy beta cluster are in the list of 89,
capacitor-bank and special-forces. (Three of the machines in the
early cluster are also in the list).
> We're just gonna have to undo the disable if we get the hardware
> or software fix. So I'd be inclined to recommend doing nothing.
I wouldn't argue too strenuously with that recommendation. :)
We do need to ensure adequate time to do the work and test it, though,
if no good fix is available by the time we'd require it.
We could manually disable the workaround via a PROM environment variable
on the two machines in the beta cluster; this would allow us to test
updating and running in that mode, should we need to do so beyond the beta
period. (This can only be done at the machine console).
Other thoughts?
Bob
