roakey

I realize the KISS would not have the ability to log such information due to its design. It’s not a matter of storing information about how you died -- all automated CCRs are ALREADY gathering all the information I mentioned – they’re looking at the sensor voltages, they know the depth, they’re deciding weather to fire a solenoid or not and sound an alarm or not each and every poll time period.

Does anyone store all that information in a detailed form?

I develop high-end disk controller software. We consider the customer’s on-disk data important enough to log events on, since, in reality:

1) We’re not perfect and all software has bugs in it.
2) Sometimes the parameters exceed that which we designed for.
3) Sometimes the customer makes a mistake.

Logging helps us find our bugs, discover unanticipated out-of-range events and identify if the customer made a mistake. We consider the customer’s on-disk data important enough for extremely detailed logging, I would consider a customer’s life even more important, wouldn’t you think?

It would at least be far more effective than a shrug of the shoulders and a “well, it looks good to me” once the equipment is brought back to the surface.

Roak

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