[34260] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Opus has lost again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Tue Aug 6 13:03:17 1996
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU, sipb-staff@MIT.EDU
From: mycroft@MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Date: 06 Aug 1996 13:03:07 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of Tue, 6 Aug 1996 09:35:25 -0400 (EDT)
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> Recall Marc's mail of 21 July:
>
> > Subject: opus, the sgi in the sipb office
> > Date: Sun, 21 Jul 1996 19:24:09 EDT
> > From: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
> >
> > it won't boot. originally it was complaining "cannot search on /" or
> > something like that. Since then, people have been experimenting with
> > sash, so it's failing differently.
>
> This problem has recurred. Doubtless we can reformat+reinstall again
> and the problem will disappear for a time. I think this is indicative
> of serious low-level disk problems and the hard disk, or perhaps the
> entire machine, should be replaced.
I ran the diagnostics in `fx' last time, and they were unable to find
anything wrong with the disk. In addition, the format itself did a
certification pass. Although this might not have found a transient
error, I wouldn't be so quick to blame the hardware, especially since
there's no other evidence to support this.
If Hotline doesn't get to it first, I'll poke around and see if I can
find anything more than last time.
