[Astro-mdm-trouble] MDM Trouble Report for 2020 Feb 28

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MDM Trouble Report for 2020 Feb 28

Telescope: 2.4m
Observer(s): Wei Sun (University of MIchigan)
Instrument: OSMOS

Problem(s) Encountered:
Data writing errors were encountered four times during the night, at ~22:00pm, 12:00am, 07:30am, and 08:20am, respectively.

At the first time, I restarted IC PC and Caliban, then a  Telescope controller not responding” error came up. I followed
a solution in the trouble report to power-cycle HE. Problem solved.

At the second time, also met the  telescope controller  issue, but did not resolve after power-cycling HE. Then I followed
another solution in the trouble report by quitting the mdmtcs, caliban & isis terminals. problem solved again.

At the third and fourth time, I only quit the Caliban terminal, and power cycled IC PC by Ctrl/Alt/Deleting on raritan (did I
reboot the IC PC by that?). Problem solved directly, leaving a buffered file when I made next exposure.

The disk space gets to full at the beginning of the observation, which made the first writing error. I deleted some files
that has already been archived. Eric released some more space remotely. By now there is 25 GB space available for the
data directory ( /lhome/data ).

I also adjusted the motor mike of the guide probe manually, following Eric's instruction. I did not see the blue marker that Eric has
mentioned, and moved the motor mike randomly (outward/westward I think?), but it WORKED LIKE A MIRACLE!


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Submitted on 2020 Feb 29 [8:43:07]

Observer Contact Email: wesu at umich.edu
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