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From: phil@eecs.nwu.edu (William LeFebvre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.encore
Subject: RE: Burned by Encore
Message-ID: <1991Mar11.170039.25990@casbah.acns.nwu.edu>
Date: 11 Mar 91 17:00:39 GMT
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In article <1991Mar11.113346.22227@europa.asd.contel.com>, matt@mozartasd.contel.com (Matthew S. Granger) writes:
|> 
|> We should start a club. I did the exact same thing on the /dev/rheader0
|> partition. It took me two days to get the machine up fully. I figured
|> when I typed format it would at least give me some warning with an option
|> to abort if major damage could be done.

YEOW!  At least with me it was disk 1.  It only took me half a day
to recover (I didn't get home until about midnight that day).  I 
remember at the time saying to myself and others "at least it wasn't
disk 0!".

I have put in an SPR to have some sort of warning message added to format.
It is SPR #91000158.  I have no idea if or when they will act on it.

		William LeFebvre
		Computing Facilities Manager and Analyst
		Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
		Northwestern University
		<phil@eecs.nwu.edu>