Date   : Sun, 29 Mar 2009 01:21:11 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Technomatic Disaster

"Ian Wolstenholme" wrote:
> I left it thinking about it after pressing CTRL-A-BREAK whilst writing
> the previous message.  When I went back to it, nothing has happened, but
> I pressed CTRL-A-BREAK again and it suddenly came back to life!
 
Quick! Backup!
 
I had a similar problem a couple of years ago with my veroboard IDE
interface. Very occasionally there'd be a weeee......<silence>
sound as the drive spin down followed by the access light flashing
and the drive going weeeEEE<stop>... wweeeeEEE<stop>...
 
Turned out there was a veeeeeerrrryyyyy slight disconnection on the
power plug. Simply rotating the leads a couple of degrees and using
a bit of sellotape on them fixed it.
 
Talking of old drives, I've still got my Torch 20M hard drive
system that I can't get to restart. I'd love to get the data off
that.
 
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J.G.Harston - jgh@...                - mdfs.net/User/JGH
The most perfect world is an imperfect world as the imperfections
give people a reason to strive to change it.