Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: partition problems with hard disk of Zenith; Compar, Inc.
Keywords: Zenith, Supersport, hard drive corruption, Compar Inc.
Message-ID: <29824@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 20:01:10 GMT
Organization: malkaryotic
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amthor@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Geoffrey Amthor) <196@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> :
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-for a long time before problems cropped up.  And no, I have no idea how
-software could damage hardware.  But this idea came from Compar; they
-said something about "hard spaces" (??) being inserted by WP, tripping up
-the drive--I couldn't follow the discussion at the time.)  I've also had


I can imagine a program exercising the drive to the point of failure,
but...to suggest that WP's hard-space characters cause the problem is to
suggest that the drive is incapable of writing certain data values.

I assume that the "owner's son, a.k.a. mkg mgr" of Compar is the one who
made this suggestion.  Absent a rational explanation of *how* this data
could trash a drive, I would assume that anyone who suggested the idea
was technically absolutely incompetent.  (As in, "You need a left-handed
screwdriver for that".)