Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!um-math!sharkey!cfctech!teemc!hpftc!zardoz!henry.jpl.nasa.gov!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!apple!oliveb!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid Subject: Re: Megatape Message-ID: <82508@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 29 Aug 89 20:16:26 GMT References:<234@lewis.OZ> Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA Lines: 18 >> 2. We lose the microcode in the TPE once and a while. > >Yep, seen that.... We could usually make it happen with a "mt fsf n" command, >where n was of such a value that the search would take many minutes. It >seemed that the TPE microcode timed out (perhaps timeouts setup for 9 >track tape) and caused the microcode failure. Don't keep it to yourself; make sure you RTOC knows when you have problems like this! If you already have told them, tell them again. And tell them that you already told them. :-) Generally RTOC and Sustaining Engineering do a terrific job of bug tracking and fixes. For problems that require R&D involvement, though, they can only be as responsive as the responsible code pounder here in the white tower. (More like a garret than a tower. :-)) You tell RTOC, and they tell R&D, and the managers allocate us more time to work on bug fixes.