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Re: My Sun (the-thin-man) still doesn't work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
Fri Jul 15 09:29:35 1994
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 09:38:09
From: burke@MIT.EDU (Jerry Burke)
To: mgood@MIT.EDU
Cc: jchase@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU
> From: mgood@MIT.EDU
> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 16:42:11 EDT
> To: jchase@MIT.EDU, burke@MIT.EDU
> Cc: mgood@MIT.EDU
> Subject: My Sun (the-thin-man) still doesn't work
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Hi Matt,
We are working on the problem. John brought over a new workstation last
night and we ran into the same problem. He should be getting advice from
the system people, now.
Thanks, Jerry
> Hi!
>
> Because the Sun would not successfully reboot, Peter Lee
> attempted to reinstall the system software using the
> Athena Solaris boot disk. This also failed.
>
> Using the "probe -scsi" command did not return any info
> except "target 3".
>
> Peter thinks the disk is bad. What's the plan? Replacement?
> Is there some way to hard reformat the drive?
>
> The machine name is
> the-thin-man
>
> I'd really like to have a working workstation by this
> weekend, because I'll be spending most of the weekend in
> my office working on various things, and it would be great
> if I could have a functional workstation.
>
> Sigh. Please keep me posted.
>
>
> Matt
