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From: weisen@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Neil Weisenfeld)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Disk Technician Plus
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Date: 11 Apr 90 15:52:41 GMT
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In article <1769@sparko.gwu.edu> sc155113@seas.gwu.edu () writes:

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>I've never run DT or anything else like it before.  The drive is about
>five years old.  I dropped the system twice, which caused it to crash, 
>although a low-level format fixed it.  On top of that, the computer is
>in a room that doesn't have central heating, so during the winter, we
>have to start up the stove to heat the room.  This means that the computer
>can switch from 30 degrees to 70 degrees back to 30 again in 24 hours, for
>several weeks.
>

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I can't explain why your hard drive is alive, but cycling your computer
through temperatures like that is terrible for the rest of the machine.

Neil

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