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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: hacknews
Subject: latest thrilling Tales of the Disks 
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Date: Wed, 23-Nov-83 14:52:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 23 14:52:24 1983
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We are now running on drive B (same as before) on a Terabit loaner pack.
Several heads on B were replaced and our UNIXA4 pack is being bundled
off for refurbishing.  We did a pack-to-pack copy; drive A behaved itself
long enough for that.  (We might try running on A at some point -- it
seems to be ok at the moment -- but we didn't dare just now, given that
we're still suspicious of the drive and we DON'T want to restore a whole
pack from magtape.)  Drive B has been realigned and PMed.

As an experiment, we are running temporarily with the SMC driver's
patience set to 0 to see what the error rate is like.  This change has
not yet been propagated into /etc/rc, so the system still comes up
in a "safe" state (patience 1).
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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