"...we are going to bring the system back up in what we call the cripple mode where we are able to have normal operations in the mode in which we are able to take pictures and you are able to use the instruments. And in that mode we are going to delete from the flash memory -- the flash file system -- a large number of files that were left over from the cruise phase of the mission before landing," Adler said.
Engineers think that by deleting that batch of files, the rover might not require as much memory when trying to use the file management system.
Actually, it looks like it wasn't a case with the flash memory being corrupted, but rather it having to many files...
"We also yesterday completed a scan of the flash memory. This provided us with some important diagnostic information. We are now able to tell that when we mount the flash memory, it does in fact take a lot of the system RAM in the process. In fact, more system RAM than is available. So that's helping confirm the theory we had that the reason the restarts were hanging up was because we were running out of memory when we are trying to mount the flash memory.
I'm surprised that they had kept the files that were to be used only during the cruise stage.(source: www.spaceflightnow.com )
Anyone here know why they bothered to keep the files? Wouldn't they want as much space as possible for the scientific data?
I love the analogy of the landing being a "300-million-mile hole in one."
Taken from spaceflightnow.com: As suspected overnight when the first images arrived on Earth, the rover has landed inside "a 20-meter diameter" crater, Squyres reports. The crater is estimated to be "a couple of meters deep."
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According to spaceflightnow.com, the files are from the cruise stage (travel from Earth to Mars) of the mission...
I'm surprised that they had kept the files that were to be used only during the cruise stage.(source: www.spaceflightnow.com )
Anyone here know why they bothered to keep the files? Wouldn't they want as much space as possible for the scientific data?
I love the analogy of the landing being a "300-million-mile hole in one."
Taken from spaceflightnow.com: As suspected overnight when the first images arrived on Earth, the rover has landed inside "a 20-meter diameter" crater, Squyres reports. The crater is estimated to be "a couple of meters deep."
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