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From: feg@floyd.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Hard drive repair...For do-it-yourselfers.
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.122934.3735@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 12:29:34 GMT
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In article <1991Jun26.061359.28370@marlin.jcu.edu.au> zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Ross Alford) writes:
>
>I have a ST225, bought in September 1986.  In about March 1989 I opened
>up the computer for some reason and discovered that, and I am not joking
>here, some small ants had eaten through the filter on the top of the
>case and were wandering in and out.  I immediately secured a new layer
>of filter paper over the top of the little thingy that has the filter in
>it.  The drive is still working.  I don't know where the ants were going
>after they disappeared into the casing, but I assume they were at least
>slightly violating the "clean-room" integrity of the drive.  Perhaps
>they always got flung off the platters before the heads extended at
>startup?  Just goes to show that you can *sometimes* get lucky.

>Ross A. Alford
>Department of Zoology                      Internet: zlraa@marlin.jcu.edu.au
>James Cook University                      Phone:    +61 77 81 4732
>Townsville, Qld 4811 Australia


Your report, coming from the Department of Zoology, at least has
a credible address.  Your field wouldn't be entomology, would it? (;-))


Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com