You may have noticed that you sometimes get hardware errors (parity errors
etc). This is due to a cancer in disk drive DUA1:. According to a newspaper
article, the drive suffers from excessive lubricant build-up on the heads
which causes read/write errors. The drive maker, Fujitsu, has claimed to have
solved the problem, however, the company from whom we bought it, Emulex,
claims they haven't. We have been told that Fujitsu will either send us a
new drive of the same kind with the problem fixed, or a different kind that
we can use until they can find one that doesn't have that problem. In either
case, it'll be a few days before we get it. So in the meantime we are going
to remove the drive from the system completely. In order to do this, we need
to move 500,000 blocks worth of files off of Kim's userdisk to Charm's.

The system will need to be shutdown for about 3-4 hours to rebuild the
currently 2 volume disk to a 1 volume disk. This procedure will begin
this evening (tues 10-Feb-1986) beginning at about 6pm.

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