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From: mcculley@alien.enet.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: VMS upgrade path question
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Date: 13 Jun 91 22:24:16 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.065949.29415@tkou02.enet.dec.com>, diamond@jit533.swstokyo.dec.com (Norman Diamond) writes...
#>In article <962@hadron.COM> klr@hadron.COM (Kurt L. Reisler) writes:
#>>It seems that in the process of relocating the collection of upgrade tapes
#>>from location A to location B, the car in which they were being carried
#>>attempted to occupy the same physical space as a bus.

Would that make the problem a bus error?

#>Should have copied the upgrades over an Ethernet connection.  That has
#>collision detection.

I got the idea that the problem was not the collision going undetected, 
but that it couldn't be corrected by retries.

--bruce