[38164] in Hotline Meeting
m37-312-40
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sly@leonardo.MIT.EDU)
Sun May 4 17:10:05 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 04 May 97 17:10:03 -0400
From: sly@leonardo.MIT.EDU
I'd like to commend the wondertwin decision on the length
of cable to use to attach a machine to a transceiver. On
the machines m37-312-40 and m37-312-39, the machine to
transciever cables (AUI) are just long enough to barely
reach each of the machines with the transceiver levitating
between the two of them. Well, the clip on the back of
the SGI m37-312-40 has failed nicely (as mechanical things
under continuous loading sometimes do) and the AUI cable has
fallen off of the back of the machine. Which wouldn't be
a problem, it could just be put back onto the machine if
it wasn't carrying the weight of the transceiver, but since
it is and no longer has anything to support it, it won't stay.
It may be possible to reattach the clip to the back of the
machine so that it can still support the transceiver while
remaining attached to the SGI, but I'm not going for any
agility awards this week to crawl around behind the machine
and find out. In a nutshell, m37-312-40 is not on the network
anymore because it's AUI cable won't stay attached.
--sly
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