[28808] in Hotline Meeting
Re: hardware problem: floppy disk drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sun Jun 18 15:00:48 1995
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 95 15:00:44 -0400
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [28806] in Hotline
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> The machine: W20-575-37:18.187.0.56 (1st machine on left as you enter
> Student Center cluster)
> The problem: floppy disk drive physically won't accept disks. Looks like the
> door got jammed somehow.
> Date: Thu Apr 20 06:55:19 EDT 1995
> User: jinx0@mit.edu (Kristopher D. Giesing)
I certainly hope that person has the date wrong. In any event, at
about 01:00 this morning, I noticed that w20-575-37 seemed to be
exhibiting the classic DECstation power supply failure mode. Careful
power cycling fixed it. This only about the 10th time that that
particular machine has done this in the past year, but I thought you
might want to know :-)
--jhawk
