Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!arisia!sgi!shinobu!odin!odin.corp.sgi.com!portuesi From: portuesi@tweezers.esd.sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga Survives 7.0 Earthquake Message-ID: Date: 23 Oct 89 09:46:54 GMT References: <23238@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@odin.SGI.COM Reply-To: portuesi@sgi.com (Michael Portuesi) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mtn. View, CA Lines: 26 In-reply-to: thad@cup.portal.com's message of 21 Oct 89 10:35:43 GMT >>>>> On 21 Oct 89 10:35:43 GMT, thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) said: thad> Which leaves me, in conclusion, asking how other people's systems fared, and thad> what, if anything, can be done to prevent system damage with forces of this, thad> or greater, magnitude. thad> Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ] Well, my Amiga survived, even though it was at home running when the quake hit. Fortunately the hard disk drive suffered no damage, and I was very lucky the monitor didn't fall off the milkcrate it was perched upon. My workstation here crashed when the quake hit, and I was unable to determine if the very important work I saved seconds before the quake hit had survived, until I returned to work Thursday. As far as preventing system damage, is there some way that hard disks can be designed to autopark during periods of non-use, and to withdraw the heads if the mechanism is jolted? In most cases, the data is much more costly than the systems storing and manipulating it. --M -- __ \/ Michael Portuesi Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Inc. portuesi@SGI.COM