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From: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <186@dg_rtp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Feb-86 17:49:25 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 25 17:49:25 1986
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Reply-To: meissner@dg_rtp.UUCP (Michael Meissner)
Organization: Data General (Languages @ Westborough, MA.)
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In article <376@nvzg2.UUCP> dta@nvzg2.UUCP (Doug Anderson) writes:
>
>	I don't know about Yourdon but when I worked for a
>	company in San Antonio, Texas, one of our night
>	shift clerks wiped out 4 RP06 drives and 6 removable
>	packs by doing this on a PDP 11/70.  Needless to say
>	the person was chastised. (we were down for 12 hours
>	till DEC got our drives back up.  Thankfully we
>	still had a set of backup packs that hadn't been
>	sacrificed to the great Head Crash :~) ).
>

In 1 hour, 4 277MB removable drives were trashed here at DG (Westborough).
We had a head crash on one, and FS swapped both packs to see what was wrong.
While they were taking the first two drives apart, the roached disk was
taken to another system to run the AOS/VS equivalent of fsck.  Needless to
say, when the third drive crashed, field service again swapped packs.

I also found out the hard way, that the paper tape labels should not be
attached to removable disks.  After 1/2 hour, the label flies into the middle
of the head assembly.