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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John J Morey)
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Hi JJ. Thanks for calling back to let me know you're checking into
this. Dunno if it helps, but we do have bootable Solaris installation
media here and tautog has a CD drive. Also, there is an external SCSI
port on the back of tautog if I had to attach another disk/tape unit
from somewhere. An interesting challenge, nonetheless. :-)
Note that I haven't called Sun for service yet. I thought it better to
leave open the option of copying the existing suspect disk before it
goes away. If you folks did opt to come to the Cape for a day, the
weather's looking up and perhaps we could coincide that with updating
the Athena release on 2 other workstations (from 8.0 to whatever is
current). I was planning on doing this myself w/help from Jonathon
Weiss (I sent him email about this this AM, cc'd to op@mit.edu) but I'd
gladly let you have at that, too!
-Eric
BTW: tautog is the print server for scallop; the 2 machines (squeteague
and menhaden) needing an Athena update are *not* print servers.
Eric Cunningham wrote:
>
> Eric Cunningham wrote:
> >
> > 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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