[net.followup] VM crashes

colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) (07/31/86)

In article <503@valid.UUCP>, gelfand@valid.UUCP (Brooks Gelfand) writes:
)                                                             When the
) hardware crashes you will loose work in progress - the files in core.
) However, you should not have lost any files on disk unless you were 
) writing to them at the time of the crash. Or did you perhaps have a
) disk head crash?

I don't know exactly what happened.  I believe it was a "soft" failure--
perhaps a wacky disk controller.
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Col. G. L. Sicherman
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