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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jjmorey@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Oct 19 12:01:43 1990
From: jjmorey@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 90 12:01:13 EDT
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jjmorey (8141) RT's broken in E52-364-2,3 4:52 pm Sep 12, 1990
(at priam) *** NEEDS A SERVICE CALL ***
/***** hector:hotline / priam!pete / 10:30 am Aug 14, 1990*/
From pete@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Tue Aug 14 10:30:18 1990
From: pete@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Broken RT in E52-364
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 90 10:30:06 EDT
Rita:
An RT in E52-364 -- E52-364-3 -- will not boot up from its disk. This
problem first appeared after I upgraded its memory to 8 mbytes. It would stick
on self-test 4c. These are the actions that I have taken:
Removed one 4 mbyte board to restore memory to 4 mbytes.
Powered on workstation -- it still hung on 4c.
Restored 4 mbyte board, bringing memory up to 8 mbytes.
Replaced HESDI board to check to see whether disk controller was
problem.
Powered on workstation -- it still hung on 4c.
Restored old HESDI board.
Ran diagnostics -- the machine wouldn't read the disks & now
hangs on 88.
Looking up hardware error 88 in the Problem Determination Guide
gives the Service Request Number 36-780.
Carlton may have an RT that can take the place of this machine.
The serial number for this machine is 26-0009861.
Pete
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jjmorey Response 1 of 5 4:53 pm Sep 12, 1990
(at priam) *** NEEDS A SERVICE CALL ***
/***** hector:hotline / priam!rita / 4:35 pm Aug 28, 1990*/
Diags will need to be run on this machine.
I will try tomorrow.
-rita
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jjmorey Response 2 of 5 4:53 pm Sep 12, 1990
(at priam) *** NEEDS A SERVICE CALL ***
/***** hector:hotline / priam!jjmorey / 4:50 pm Sep 12, 1990*/
/***** hector:hotline / priam!jjmorey / 4:44 pm Sep 12, 1990*/
From jjmorey@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Wed Sep 12 16:44:25 1990
From: jjmorey@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Cc: rita@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, larugsi@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: E52-364 RT
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 90 16:44:04 EDT
This Rt was reported down by Pam Loplest.
Office #x-8700
Mail #x-6979
Peter Ralston had taken a look at this station to try and get software onto it.
This is a private cluster and has a keypad code, which I have.
--jjmorey
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jjmorey Response 3 of 5 7:44 pm Sep 14, 1990
(at priam)
/***** hector:hotline / priam!loprest / 6:21 pm Sep 14, 1990*/
From loprest@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Fri Sep 14 18:21:11 1990
From: loprest@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: RTs & drives, etc.
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 90 18:19:58 EDT
I called a few days ago about an RT in private cluster E52-364 that has
been dead for quite some time. Someone from operations came to look at it
on August 18 and said they would be back. No one has come back. Could
someone come have a look at it? (It's the one with the note on it.)
Also, the disk drive on the left-most vaxstation (when facing them), is
eating disks. When you try to do a dosdir (or write or read) the disk is
from then on unusable. Could you have a look at this too?
The combination is to the room is 5-3-4. Thanks alot.
-Pam Loprest
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jjmorey Response 4 of 5 6:02 pm Sep 19, 1990
(at priam)
/***** hector:hotline / priam!jjmorey / 5:55 pm Sep 19, 1990*/
Machine: e52-364-2
Problem: This was reported to hotline as hanging on code '5c'
(The e52-364 cluster is looking like it's having problems.)
This will need to be verified.
-rita
this has been verified as being stuck on 5c.
--jjmorey
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jjmorey Response 5 of 5 5:31 pm Sep 24, 1990
(at priam)
/***** hector:hotline / priam!sfisher / 5:08 pm Sep 24, 1990*/
From sfisher@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Mon Sep 24 17:08:27 1990
From: sfisher@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 17:07:41 -0400
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: hardware
did you know that two of the rt's in e52-364 are down (and have been for
a while).
thanks
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loprest (A252) E52-364 RTs 10:39 am Oct 19, 1990
(at priam)
From loprest@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Fri Oct 19 10:39:51 1990
From: loprest@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: hotline@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Subject: RTs
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 90 10:39:36 EDT
We have two RTs in cluster E52-364 that have been down for a long long
time. I was told some time ago that we were on the list for parts from dead
RTs etc. Can I get an idea of when we might get at least one of these back
up? We only have 6 workstations total, and the loss of two for all this
time is really presenting a problem. Is it possible to replace these with
others? Is there anything I can do from this end to move the process along
faster? Just wanted to know what the status is and make sure we hadn't been
forgotten.
Pam Loprest
