brown@cs.rochester.edu (Chris Brown) (06/08/88)
I'm going out of country for a year and want to crate my 3b1 until I return. Any hints, dangers, recommended procedures? I tend to be worried about the clock battery, I guess. Thanks for any info -- chris brown (brown@cs.rochester.edu)
gws@n8emr.UUCP (Gary Sanders ) (06/08/88)
In article <10398@sol.ARPA> brown@cs.rochester.edu (Chris Brown) writes: >I'm going out of country for a year and want to crate my 3b1 until I >return. Any hints, dangers, recommended procedures? I tend to be worried >about the clock battery, I guess. Thanks for any info -- Chris.. I would worry more about the disk than the clock.. If you want you can remove a jumper on the mother board that will disable the battery, or let it run down and replace it when you get back. The biggest problem is going to be the disk. I had a number of 20mb 7300/6300 that had 20mb disk. These ran 24hr/day for several years. We turned these systems off for about 1month and when I turned them back on all of the disk failed to spin up. Problem the grease had hardened on the disk spindle. You might get away with greasing up up the drive before you leave. Make a couple of backups before you leave and also keep a list of passwords for the system, or clear them out.. -- Gary W. Sanders HAM/SWL BBS 614-457-4227 (uucp) gws@n8emr (uucp) osu-cis!n8emr!gws (packet) N8EMR @ W8CQK (cis) 72277,1325
jcs@tarkus.UUCP (John C. Sucilla) (06/09/88)
In article <10398@sol.ARPA> brown@cs.rochester.edu (Chris Brown) writes: >I'm going out of country for a year and want to crate my 3b1 until I >return. If your unsure about the evironment it will be in (like high humidty or you live near an ocean) you might want to put it in a thick plastic bag. Use a shop vac to pull all the air out of it and seal it. Your connectors will thank you when you return. -- John "C". Sucilla, A silicon based life form. {ihnp4,chinet,ddsw1}!tarkus!jcs You have a better idea? Now's the time..