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From: steve@iphase.UUCP (Steve Kappes PER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Raaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Message-ID: <231@iphase.UUCP>
Date: 20 Aug 90 18:59:50 GMT
References: <03896.AA03896@sosaria.imp.com>
Reply-To: steve@iphase.UUCP (Steve Kappes PER)
Organization: Interphase Corp. Dallas TX
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In article <03896.AA03896@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com (Chris Brand) writes:
>
>I don't believe it.  Listen what happened to me today.  This morning I (or
>better the Amiga) succeeded in destroying my not 1/2 year old Imprimis
>Swift 170 megs harddisk.  Yes.  Destroyed.
>
>-- deleted stuff                       --<

I expect this may be heavily jumped but just in case...

A SCSI controller cannot destroy a drive by any normal means.  They
are not like ST-506 controllers which have direct control of inter-record
gaps and headers and such.  They definitely cannot cause a component
failure.  The drivers are open collector so even shorting lines should
cause no damage except for terminator power.  The only part of the
drive the controller touches apparently is still functioning as the drive
was able to return the hardware error code.

Bad power or bad cooling could contribute to such a failure.
I have a feeling that your drive just died.

>------------------------------------
>Chris Brand - wizard@sosaria.imp.com
>"Justice is the possession and doing 
>of what one is entitled to" - Platon
>------------------------------------

Steve Kappes  Interphase Corp.  uunet!iphase!steve