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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. Damn, who do they have working for them? by ericdano · · Score: 0, Troll

    Damn, it sounds like freaking Microsoft. Say they know about a bug or a problem, and weeks LATER they fix it......

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