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Mars Rover Spirit Back Online

Posted by timothy on from the expensive-vacation dept.

Skyshadow writes "Just in time for the arrival of its twin, the Spirit Mars Rover is back in working order. Programmers at the JPL have traced the problem to the rover's flash RAM, which it uses to maintain its filesystems. They are using a ramdisk in the rover's RAM to bypass the bad flash memory, and are working on a workaround for the bad flash. Good news, but the rover is still potentially weeks away from full operational status."

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  1. Re:Weeks away? by anakin357 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I found this rather funny.

    Just because it's humor from another story doesn't mean it's a troll.

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  2. Re:Weeks away? by adrianbaugh · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm glad someone read it as intended :-) Clearly the moderators haven't been reading the front page carefully enough. Oh well, I have karma to burn...

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  3. Re:Follow the status? by tealover · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Yeah, he's not cool like us studs spending our Saturday nights here on Slashdot.

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  4. Re:Not "online" at all... by DaveAtFraud · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And the funny thing, as you noted, is that your original post got modded as "Informative" which means our beloved moderators don't even RTFA before modding.

    Go ahead. Mod me down as "off topic". I've got karma to burn. But only if *YOU* RTFA.

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