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From: colonel@sunybcs.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: VM crashes
Message-ID: <535@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Jul-86 17:44:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.535
Posted: Wed Jul 30 17:44:07 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Aug-86 02:22:05 EDT
References: <653@glasgow.glasgow.UUCP> <494@sunybcs.UUCP> <503@valid.UUCP>
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In article <503@valid.UUCP>, gelfand@valid.UUCP (Brooks Gelfand) writes:
)                                                             When the
) hardware crashes you will loose work in progress - the files in core.
) However, you should not have lost any files on disk unless you were 
) writing to them at the time of the crash. Or did you perhaps have a
) disk head crash?

I don't know exactly what happened.  I believe it was a "soft" failure--
perhaps a wacky disk controller.
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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