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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. Mars Defense System... by TheKidWho · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Its a martian virus...

  2. Redundancy? by jasonfncsu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is horrible planning by NASA! Web servers have more redundancy than a Mars Rover? Ok, lets see. 128 mb RAM -- (assuming it's a DDR sodimm) about $100 to add an extra 256 mb flash ram -- ~$100 Any reason why they didn't add any backups?

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  3. Re:Not "online" at all... by |>>? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How this reply came to be:

    I'd just been reading Spaceflight Now, switched back to /., read the posting, thought to myself: "Hmm, that's not what I just read.", hovered my mouse over the last link - even clicked it - saw CNN, read the caption thought, "Yup, that's just what I read, but the posting is wrong.", bashed in my response, even hit Preview, then hit Submit, then looked again, then noticed that my link was the same as the one in the post, thought - "Hmm, ahh well, so much for that contribution.", then noticed that people were moderating it up....

    Thanks anyway...

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