Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!noao!stsci!itkin
From: itkin@stsci.EDU (Elliot Itkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Disk Drive faux pas.
Message-ID: <178@obi-wan>
Date: 6 Jan 88 17:28:33 GMT
References: <266@coplex.UUCP> <267@coplex.UUCP>
Distribution: na
Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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Keywords: hardware disk drive stupid

In article <267@coplex.UUCP>, jim@coplex.UUCP (Jim Sewell) writes:
>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?

No.  Your computer has some "diginurds" in it.  Diginurds have been
described as demons playing billiards with the electrons in 
semi-conductor material.  There was an article about them in some 
technical journal over 10 years ago, but I don't remember it now.
-- 
Elliot S. Itkin       Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD 21218
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