mark@intek01.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) (02/24/90)
Count me an even more fanatical member of the Church of the Frequent
Backup.
Our CDC 94186-383H gave up the ghost two weeks ago this weekend after
less than a year of service. I came in Monday the 12th and found
PANIC: HD Controller failure
on my console. Oh noooooo. It looks fixable; I didn't hear any
grinding metal when I tried to reboot. The light on the drive just
blinked.
I had been doing a rather fragmented backup scheme ("well, I don't really
need this, do I?"). I also didn't have a kernel on floppy disk that had
TCP/IP or the tape driver in it, so I had to rebuild everything from
scratch. I'm going to get a bootable floppy set up with a full-boat kernel,
the disk initialization stuff, and everything I need to restore to a new
disk in a hurry.
I didn't lose anything important, except my time. We bought a Miniscribe
9380E that seems to be working fine so far. But if it dies tomorrow, I'm
READY!
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Mark McWiggins Integration Technologies, Inc. (Intek)
+1 206 455 9935 DISCLAIMER: I could be wrong ...
1400 112th Ave SE #202 Bellevue WA 98004
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