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From: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)
Newsgroups: net.wanted
Subject: Re: Computer Horror Stories
Message-ID: <3014@pesnta.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 15:48:19 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 15:48:19 1986
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Reply-To: earlw@pesnta.UUCP (Earl Wallace)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corporation / Customer Service
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An operator at one of our customers sites started getting errors from  one  of
the  CDC  300 megabyte removable disk drives, figuring that the drive might be
bad, this person moved the disk pack to  a  another  drive.  Again,  the  disk
couldn't  read  the pack without errors.  The pack was moved to the last drive
to see if that unit was working.  Couldn't read  the  pack  there  either.  It
turned  out  that  the first drive had a head crash and the disk pack surfaces
were destroyed.  All three drives experienced total head  failures  from  this
pack.  I don't know what happened to the operator.