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From: farren@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shell V2.05, mea culpa
Message-ID: <1789@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 12-Feb-87 02:54:25 EST
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.1789
Posted: Thu Feb 12 02:54:25 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Feb-87 02:26:27 EST
References: <115@rayssde.RAY.COM> <1748@vax135.UUCP> <383@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
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Keywords: who knows?

In article <383@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.UUCP> pkenny1@umn-d-ub.UUCP (Pat Kenny) writes:
>Well I think its alright to reboot while your light is on, BUT (This is
>important), don't reboot when the head is reading or writing. I have rebooted
>a disk that was spinning and the light was on, and it still work A O.K.
>Just listen to you disk drive for any action or a repeating pattern and at
>the right time ,POW, reboot the system.
>At least its better to try this way then really trashing a disk.
>
I'm amazed.  Someone who can actually hear the electrons running through
the heads.  Such little critters, they must make very tiny noises!  Ser-
iously, DON'T DO IT!  I've trashed too many disks by taking them out when
I "knew" it was safe.


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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"