Re: new dolphin+puma alive

[claude petitjean <claude.petitjean@psi.ch>]

Dear Fred,

I can add a few details of our efforts to get old dolphin's contents back:

Since it was out of question to start old dolphin on the ethernet, we 
decided to mount
a new hard disk in addition to the old one, install the PSI linux on the 
new one, then
activate the old dolphin disk as a slave to the new one. This effort 
failed - the 2 discs
were not compatible.

As a next step I mounted the old disk on an external USB device and 
tried to read it
with the new dolphin (with the idea to copy all home directories over). 
But it failed
showing lots of reading errors.

After that, Valery took the old disk into his custody and we continued 
without. So
the disk still exists and I can investigate next week if there is some 
recovery possible.

With best regards

Claude

Frederick Gray wrote:

> Hi, Claude,
>
> Thanks very much getting our barrack back into a hacker-free state.   
> One implication of the dolphin disk crash is that some work will be  
> required to make the DAQ system functional again before the next run,  
> since dolphin was the file server for the frontend VME CPUs.  Backups  
> exist of most things, but they are not all completely up to date.   
> So, please do not throw away the old disk yet.  Is it your  
> understanding that it is physically damaged (e.g. motor doesn't spin)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -- Fred
>