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Re: Athena Hardware Service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Cunningham)
Tue May 5 08:55:52 1998
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 08:55:48 -0400
From: Eric Cunningham <ecunningham@whoi.edu>
To: op@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
Eric Cunningham wrote:
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> Hi. I've got a Sparc 4 here at WHOI, tautog, whose internal disk is
> occasionally making a pretty bad whiney noise. I suspect a bearing or
> spindle is on the way out. Can someone tell me who the hardware support
> vendor is? Is it Sun? I've never had to log a hardware service call on
> any of these machines here at WHOI 'til now. Thanks.
Hi again. Juan Vargas got me the info I requested above. Now, to
take this 1 step further, I'll have no boot/system disk for this
workstation once it has been replaced.
This Sparc 4 doesn't appear to have a 2nd internal scsi port so I don't
think it possible to temporarily install the replacement disk
alongside this suspect disk, partition, copy the system disk-to-disk and
write a bootblock.
Is there a prescribed way to deal with replacing the system disk with
respect to rebuilding the OS? There are no other disk or tape units
attached to this workstation. If the rebuilding process is going to
long and ugly, perhaps I can locate another tape or disk unit to use
for backup and restore...
Thanks.
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Eric Cunningham
Computer and Information Services
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Woods Hole, MA 02543-1541 voice: (508) 289-2224
fax: (508) 457-2174 e-mail: ecunningham@whoi.edu
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