From: Chris Chapman (chrisc_at_CLOUDS.NET)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2004 - 07:41:25 PDT
Haha.. yes sometimes hitting equipment works.. monitors.. harddrives.. oh and the starter on my car.. hehe funny how that works huh??
chris
On not infrequent occasion,
an old hard drive would be discovered that either had stopped spinning
entirely, or, was on its last legs. The IT gurus showed me a trick: the hard drive
would be physically dropped from a height of roughly two or three feet, on to a
counter top! The IT guys explained to me that this could be done once, as a
last-ditch effort to make the damn thing spin a bit longer. If the hard drive
did not respond after one drop, then it was time to replace it (usually done
with a hard drive that was only slightly less decrepit than its predecessor).
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