Re: Ground archive

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Steve Nelson" <snelson@icaen.uiowa.edu> wrote in message 
news:ddnpaf$ab$1@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu...
>A few weeks ago ground.ecn.uiowa.edu suffered a drive failure and has been
> offline since that time.  I have not found a replacement drive yet (50pin
> narrow, single-ended SCSI, which was commonly used several years ago).

Steve, I have a 50 GB SCSI drive with an adapter to go to 50 pin IDC,
and may have the connector you need underneath, however, I will need to
connect an IDE drive first to copy off what is on it, but after that, you 
are
welcome to it. Ground archive is one of my favorite sites, and I'd like to
help get it back up and running.

> Unfortunately, I have been told that the recent backup tapes are
> unavailable.  So, if the ground machine is ever resurrected, the backup
> must come from a site that mirrored ground.

If someone has the ground files on their system but no time to transfer
it to Ground, I can download it from you and burn it on DVD for Steve.
Please, let me know and I'll get on it. Thanks.

> I still read csa2 on a different machine, but it is not configured to post
> followups so it is hard to communicate with this newsgroup.  It is
> surprising that several weeks went by without someone mentioning the loss
> of the ground archive.  I was beginning to get worried that no-one cared
> ;-)


We care, Steve, we really do. Sometimes we get too busy and just forget
momentarily, but let me assure you, we DO care.

My email is willy46pa@comcast.net .  Let me help.

Bill Garber