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From: amiguy@pnet01.cts.com (Sean Wolfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk Drive faux pas.
Message-ID: <2289@crash.cts.com>
Date: 6 Jan 88 11:16:42 GMT
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jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) writes:
>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?
When you turn off something like a computer, all of the power doesn't drain
out of the components right away.. By the time the next day came around, all
of the parts had time to release their charge.....
                              (I think...)   
AmiGuy