Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 5 Jun 1998 16:10:12 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mike A. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: UNBELIEVABLE linux story! |
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On Fri, 5 Jun 1998, Dave Wreski wrote:
> > [...] I bumped the power cable on my hard disk and > > jolted it enough that it disconnected. OH SHIT! The computer > > seemed to be ok still... I pressed some keys... no problem... I > > was freaking! I carefully grabbed the power cable and put it > > back on WHILE THE COMPUTER REMAINED ON!! > > I blew up a 130M Seagate, back when they were hundreds of dollars by > accidentally jarring the hard disk cable. You're very lucky. > > Hard disks are still hundreds of dollars, so when you do happen to mention > this story, you might want to say you had precious data that wasn't quite > flushed from cache, and you had no choice but to _intentionally_ re-insert > the power cable ;)
Heheheh. I never thought of the cache not being flushed... I am still mind boggled by this! I think I might throw my running computer in a bathtub full of water next, while running 2000 copies of crashme in parallel. All on web cam of course. ;o)
That would be a good webpage for sure!
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