After I wrote:
 
>> We had something unusual happen both yesterday and
>> today:  Short duration power failures on both days, and in
>> both cases our Series 957 was NOT successful in
 
Steve Butler wrote:
 
>This brings back memories of a bug in the late '70s.  If there were two
>powerfails rapidly (back-to-back so-to-speak), the system would die.  I
>think the problem was traced to a powerfail happening during the recovery
>from a powerfail.
 
>Did you get a blip before the power dropped solid?
 
Nope, no blip either time.  And yes, if you get a second
powerfail interrupt while MPE/iX is already in the middle
of a powerfail recovery sequence, realize it is possible
the system will get confused and require <CTRL-B>
RESET.  But that should not have been the problem
this time........
 
Thanks,
Ken Sletten