Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!coplex!jim
From: jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk Drive faux pas.
Message-ID: <267@coplex.UUCP>
Date: 5 Jan 88 06:17:51 GMT
References: <266@coplex.UUCP>
Reply-To: jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell)
Distribution: na
Organization: Copper Electronics,  Louisville, Ky.
Lines: 18
Keywords: hardware disk drive stupid

In article <266@coplex.UUCP> jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) writes:
>[I plugged in my] external drive with the power
>to the computer on.  Yes, I know it was a stupid thing to do, but you know how
>it goes on a bad day.  Anyway, I plugged in the drive and guess what?  It died.

I have an even better question!  When the aforementioned problem occured I 
immediately thought, "Maybe it is a program confusing my Ami." So I rebooted 
from power off.  When this provided the same results, I repeated the whole cold
boot sequence.  Being desperate I did this 4 times with no better results.  This
morning, however, when I woke Amy up, the drive started clicking when Workbench
came up and upon being fed a disk worked like a charm!  Is my computer possessed
by some really bizarre form of a virus [ 8-) ] or what?  Any ideas?

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