6 Mar
2007
6 Mar
'07
12:18 p.m.
Hi Jules,
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Jules Richardson wrote:
The website at
http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/phw suggests he's still
there (and hasn't updated his photo since my time there :-) so it might be
worth giving him a prod to see if they have anything on backup still.
Thanks, I'll drop him an e-mail.
Have you tried a board swap from an identical good
drive in case the fault's
with the logic rather than heads / spindle / surfaces? Knowing Sun it's a
fairly common drive...
I did wonder about this but then worried about bad block maps and the
likes. I may still have the drive somewhere back at my folks (along with
an equally dormant Esprit Supernode II).
I'm hoping to go and look at a CS1 in a few weeks
and pick it up if it turns
out to be in reasonable-enough shape. This one has a Microvax as the host
(I'm not sure how common that is - all the installations I've heard about
have been either Sun or PC).
Pretty sure I've heard of Inmos uVAX hosts, but not Meiko. Although I
guess there is no reason why an Inmos host couldn't be cabled up to boot a
CS1 - the links must be the same. I'd be interested in hearing how it
turns out and happy to help if I can with info (have some Meiko docs).
Also possibly interested in spares if it turns out to be beyond hope.
Cheers,
Andrew