Favorite Head Crash | reply somewhat Off Topic

From: Will Emerson <wpe101_at_banet.net>
Date: Fri Nov 13 20:38:33 1998

Reading this reminds me of a "notesfile" we used to have within DEC
called "warstory" which was a "compilation" of misadventures dealing
with computers. I wonder if the new or next incarnation of the list
could have something similar as a subset.. I'll bet there's _loads_
of humorous stories of misadventures involving classic equipment..
At DEC, we had loads of them.. Hey Allison, I bet you've got a few!

                                          Will

Hans Franke wrote:
>
> > About the middle of the row of racks a red fault light flickered, then came
> > on brightly. The drawer of the middle disk moved out by itself and when the
> > top opened a greyish black cloud came out, paused for a moment over the
> > drive, and then was whisked away by the air conditioning.
>
> Wooha - it opend automaticly ? Dangerous. The first thing I
> learned on head crash was:
>
> Stop the unit
> Unplug power
> Unplug Interface
> Roll the unit out of the computer room
> At best out of the house
> Now have fun with the damaged parts :)
>
> At all this steps (but the last), especialy when
> a delay ocures, guard the top with your life.
>
> We once had a 144 MB unit crashing on saturday
> morning and running (the check logic was damaged)
> until monday morning (no operators). The heads have
> been scraped completly, and the crashed disk was just
> pure alu - no magnetic surface left ... The fun thing
> was that parts of the disk stack had been readable until
> sunday night ... We couldn't belive the transaction
> protocolls :)
>
> > "I believe that pack has crossed over to the other side." said the SP in a
> > complete dead pan protestant minister delivery.
>
> :)))))
>
> Gruss
> hans
>
> --
> Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
> HRK
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