[Info-vax] DR's fate

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In article <k1qiab$q1r$2 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <504029d9$0$13040$c3e8da3$40d4fd75 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
>>> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
>>>
>>>> Your words do not serve to enlighten me.  Is there context somewhere 
>>>> that I'm missing?
>>>
>>> DR could be Digital Review. dead for many many years.
>>> or it could mean Death Row cluster. The later definitin is more likely
>>> considering the timing and context.
>> 
>> 'Tis Deathrow.  The Alpha there has had some disk failure.  The system
>> drive is still functional but it appears that most accounts were on the
>> drive which failed.  I knew soething was up when I was prompted for my
>> password when I ssh'ed to it.  My account and hostkey are on the drive
>> which has failed. 
>> 
>
>Anybody know what type of disk they might need, and who to contact ??

The Alpha at Deathrow is an AlphaServer DS10L 466 MHz.  Only IDE/ATAPI 
disks are/were were in this unit.  The system disk is a Maxtor 53073H4.
I can't tell you what the other, now non-functional, drive was.

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