- Continued to receive Anza event data, and began work on a program to read
the files and convert them into a form that we can use.
- The first week of January was spent on furlough.
- The cooling fan in the tape drive on Mecca is going bad. We are
currently considering our options for fixing it.
- Restored a guest account for Rachel Abercrombie in New Zealand. Files
had to be recovered off of the saved backups from last summer.
- Looked into a problem with the ARK0 disk on Indio. The disk was giving a
spurious reading of free space which caused some problems when it was
filled up with data.
- Got the Anza data reading program to plot the data as graphics. In the
process, discovered that the data needed to be byte-swapped. Now the
waveforms look reasonable.
- Assisted Bob in his attempt to locate some missing Landers data that was
removed from a disk that was needed for another purpose.
- Lander crashed on Monday and Wednesday. Examination of the crash dumps
did not point out a common cause for the failures.
- Booted Mojave as a satellite node on Bigone and got it to successfully
access the 9-track tape drives.
- Set up a blank disk on Mojave for storing the Landers data archives.
- Moved the WARM02 disk from Lander to Mojave.
- The second time that Lander died, it caused some cluster-wide disk
mounting problems. Some disks were hung on some nodes, and we finally had
to reboot each of the three boot nodes [Cajon, Bbear, and Bigone] to clear
the problems.
- Hooked up the setup/management port on the new DECswitch 900 so that we
can start to configure it. Made a special RJ45 to DB25 adapter for use on
this port.
- Set up an Alpha workstation that we have on loan from across the street.
It had Digital Unix installed on it. After some hacking, we were able to
set it up for Allan Walter to use to access his development environment on
Carizo.
- Found a bug in the Anza data receiver program that led to the program
hanging under certain circumstances.
- Ran a defragmentation on Indio$dkb0 [Ark0 disk] to address concerns that
the timers had about space available on that disk. Also removed some
unused system files on that disk.
- Began talking to Allan Walter about what would be needed to convert the
Anza data files to CUSP format.
- Attempted to get the old 9-track tape drives working on Bigone so that
the Timers could read some old Landers data archive tapes.
- Bigone crashed on Friday morning. The crash dump was only a partial dump,
and did not reveal the cause of the crash.