25 Feb
2009
25 Feb
'09
8:57 a.m.
On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
It continued
to do this for
several reboots, but after running unattended for a few hours the
hard
disk was again unreachable
They took this opportunity to completely back up the contents of the disk, right?
I wish. :-((
I had to go to a meeting shortly after starting it up, and by the time
I got back it was already comatose.
We have all of the original system and applications software on floppy
disks, as well as a partial backup from before the machine went down
the first time- but not the most recent data. Fortunately, we do have
hard-copy of all of the spectral data, so it's not a total loss.
Ken Marshall
Kenneth L. Marshall
Research Engineer, Optical Materials
Laboratory for Laser Energetics
University of Rochester
250 East River Rd
Rochester, NY 14623
Phone: (585)-275-8247
Fax: (585)-275-5960