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From: jlh@loral.UUCP (The Man With No Brain)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: re: Horror stories
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Date: Wed, 5-Mar-86 16:29:48 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  5 16:29:48 1986
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I remember 4 or 5 years back when we were running all our microcode and
state machine development on a PDP 11 under RSX11.  Seems time for the
annual preventitive maintanance came around, and one of the tests is to
ensure the drive can read and write correctly to each and every block of
a disk.  The DEC field service tech looked at our rack of disks, saw one
labeled 'Jay's scratch', and decided to use that for a disk.  Well, you
know engineers.  A disk is a scratch disk until you put something you need
on it, at which time it is the working disk.  You also know engineers never
re-name a disk once it has a label on it.  Jay comes in the next day,
mounts his disk, and reads out a bunch of E5's.  Seems he lost about 3
months of work, only some of which he had listings of.  I think the
field service rep also caught hell for doing that to a customer's disk without
asking anyone.