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To: docsox who wrote (1446)	7/5/1997 9:16:00 PM
From: Rob Daneel	of 10309

RE: Modem problem on Mars At the press conference last night one of the project leaders guessed that the communication glitch was a software problem. This didn't make sense to me given the number of things that could have caused only short packets of data to be transferred. In fact, software seemed the least likely. IMHO: the person who said this was an old-time hardware guy and was really speaking out of line. At one of the press conferences today we heard from a system engineer (translation: this guy knows what he's talking about). He said that they brainstormed last night coming up with various scenarios for the cause and then coming up with possible fixes. Today they tried some of these fixes and the glitch cleared up. They still don't know what the cause was and won't until more diagnostics are run. He also said that it was probably a hardware glitch. Makes more sense to me since we've been doing the type of simple communication that was going on between the rover and lander for years (at least the software needed for such communciations is fairly well known). If anything the software allowed the engineers to diagnose the hardware problems. At worst (for WIND, at least) there might have been a device driver bug, not really a core operating system issue. Rob

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