Daniel Seagraves said:
>
> Oh, and I'll have to take pictures of the crashed heads later; They're
> really impressive! The original top head for the second drive is
> COMPLETELY GONE. I have both the head and the platter it crashed onto
> stored upstairs to take pictures of as soon as the camera works again.
heh... I have a much newer (3.5" half-height SCSI) drive that did the same
thing to itself. the head is TOTALLY gone, the platter is all scratched to
hell and has a deep groove all the way around it, and the inside of the case
is filled with fine black dust (probably the remains of the head and what got
scraped off the platter...). I have it sitting on top of one of the monitors
in my office so I can tell users "this is what happens when you let your
drives get too hot, so be careful"... :)
- Dan Wright
(dtwright_at_uiuc.edu)
(
http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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Received on Wed Sep 19 2001 - 10:38:48 BST