----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory Observer's Log ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wed Nov 13 16:55:51 GMT 1996 Year: 96 Doy: 318 Observer: yasukawa WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 16:56:18 GMT 1996 Cold, in heavy cirrus and altocumulus overcast, chaotic sky, southwest wind. Storm system still lingering over state. Wed Nov 13 16:57:34 GMT 1996 CHIP Startup--Initializing new tape LOW-L COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 17:13:39 GMT 1996 LOWL drive 1 amber LED was lit (constant on) this morning. Files = 10 Wehn LOWL woke up, it started unit 0, unit 1 did nothing. eject button does not eject tape. Cycling drive 1 power and trying again. Apparently not working. will continue trying to get L00426 out of drive 1. Will load new tape into drive when successful. LOW-L COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 17:23:29 GMT 1996 LED indication is SCSI bus reset. Rebooting CPU. No solar data on current tape anyway due to heavy overcast. LOW-L COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 17:51:32 GMT 1996 Cannot get top LED to reset, cannot remove tape, cannot open up the unit--no provision for user to open case. I'll contact Boulder to initiate return. Installed spare EXABYTE unit as unit 1 (older model). Loaded L00428. Restarted LOWL. Wed Nov 13 18:38:55 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 18:38:53 GMT 1996 Cirrus is thinning a bit, maybe enough for CHIP to plow thru. Starting up CHIP, will monitor DPMON in Video mode. No MKIII at this time. Wed Nov 13 19:01:46 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Nov 13 19:03:00 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Nov 13 19:03:17 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Nov 13 19:03:58 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water Wed Nov 13 19:05:19 GMT 1996 dPMon Start Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 19:06:00 GMT 1996 Cirrus thinned further, started DPMON to try to get Activity Report position angles on the prominences. Wed Nov 13 19:31:12 GMT 1996 dPMon End Patrol WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 19:56:37 GMT 1996 In orographic clouds. Wed Nov 13 20:02:57 GMT 1996 CHIP Gain Wed Nov 13 20:07:41 GMT 1996 CHIP End Gain Wed Nov 13 20:07:56 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Nov 13 20:08:46 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Nov 13 20:09:02 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Nov 13 20:09:37 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water Wed Nov 13 21:01:40 GMT 1996 CHIP Bias Wed Nov 13 21:02:58 GMT 1996 CHIP End Bias Wed Nov 13 21:03:14 GMT 1996 CHIP Water Wed Nov 13 21:03:58 GMT 1996 CHIP End Water LOW-L COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 21:06:12 GMT 1996 Tried using software eject command, but got "unit not detected" message. I think scsi interface is broken. WEATHER COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 21:12:56 GMT 1996 In heavy orographic clouds. Closing dome. Wed Nov 13 21:14:02 GMT 1996 CHIP CHIP End Patrol Wed Nov 13 21:16:20 GMT 1996 CHIP ending tape COMMENT: Wed Nov 13 21:16:34 GMT 1996 Activity report: QP: 56; 120; 130-140; 240; No coronal data Tapes: MKIII: no data DPMON: P00762 CHIP: C00179 LOWL: L00427 in unit 0