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From: ajcole@ai.leeds.ac.UK (Andrew J Cole)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: Re: MP Code 0935 after failed SYSOUT
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Date: 31 Aug 88 12:10:50 GMT
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Christopher Schmidt writes..

>	Is your lispfiles volume larger than 16 megabytes?  There was a bug in
>Koto that sometimes signalled spurious hard disk errors when such a large
>lispfiles volume was in use.

Our largest one is 30000 pages.

and Steve Skarupa writes..

>That sounds a little familiar. After initializing the SystemTools
>volume, the first thing you should do before the SysIn is to
>go into the Profile tool once, do an Apply, and exit.

I've not heard that one before, but it so happens that I always set up the
profile after initialisation since we sysin across the ether.

>Your problem may also be that your Lisp volume is too small to
>fit the sysout.

When that happens I've always managed to recover with scavenges, sometimes
having to fix up the break in SCAVENGEDSKDIRECTORY,in this case there was
plenty of space for the sysout.

Thanks for the responses, to recover with the minimum fuss I eventually
erased the LispFiles volume using the installation tool, reinstalled the
Koto systemtools etc - at least I didnt need to repartition & the other
LispFiles volumes were OK.

Cheers,

Andrew