Hi all,
You may recall that I inquired a few weeks ago about a PS for
re-energizing R2D2 magnets. Well we got ahold of one through a VERY
generous offer from Jeff Simpson and Mark Wall at MIT, and are up to 97%
field strength. BTW, in regards to having a 3rd party recharge our magnets,
both Jerry Hatvany (who has been very helpful) from Cryomag, and Ben
Hamilton from Magnetic Resonance Sales and Services came highly recommended.
When we were initially testing out the PS, the circuit breaker with
both the PS and the console popped and the console went down hard (no disk
parking), and we just left it off while we charged the magnet. When we hit
97% we decided to turn it back on to start looking for signal but it only
got through step 3 in the bootup sequence and reported that it couldn't find
any of the VNMR configuration files. We suspect that the data or the media
itself may have been currupted by the earlier crash. After that initial,
partial boot, and some pretty scary noises from the disk(s), we don't even
get to the bootup prompt anymore. We're going to hook up a terminal a
little later to confirm whether or not it is in fact one, or both (we tried
switching the default bootup disk from #1 to #3 with no observed diference)
of the Winchester drives.
The long and the short of it is, if anyone has an old 30MB drive for
a Varian Gemini200 console laying around, could you please get in touch with
me? I would appreciate it.
Of course well be getting in touch with MR Resources, Anasazi, etc.
as well but I wanted to try here 1st.
Sincerely,
John T.
John Tomaszewski
NMR Facility Coordinator
IU, Chemistry Dept.
800 E. Kirkwood Ave.
Bloomington, IN 47405-7102
(812) 855-4478 -Office -6492 -Lab
jtomasze_at_indiana.edu
Received on Fri Sep 28 2001 - 12:32:00 MST