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From: bin@primate.wisc.edu (Brain in Neutral)
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Subject: Re: A new virus that physically damages your hard disk?
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Date: 11 Apr 91 20:34:00 GMT
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From article <1CE00001.cjpdlcx@tbomb.ice.com>, by time@ice.com (Tim Endres):
> I know of no way for a piece of software to *physically* damage a
> generic drive. There may be some unfortunate drive someplace that
> can be physically damaged by some sequence of requests, but I seriously
> doubt it!!! It may be possible to do a low level format of the medium
> making it unusable, BUT this would vary from drive to drive and not
> work on many of them, so the probability of this is about zero.

One certainly hopes this is not true.  On the other hand there is
a way, in software, to burn out certain IBM PC monitors.  So
perhaps it is possible.  Of course, that was with PC's. :-)

--
Paul DuBois                               "The 'C' shell usually doesn't
dubois@primate.wisc.edu                   have job control." -- LAN TIMES