Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!wb1j+ From: wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu (William M. Bumgarner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Hard drives and airport x-rays, bad?? Message-ID: Date: 22 Mar 89 00:06:44 GMT Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 25 Even if they insist, refuse to do it... I know of people who have lost both floppies and hard drives to the x-ray machines. Whether or not it was the x-rays, or the magnetic fields from the belt motors is unknown. I have run the gauntlet of airport security several times-- some are cool about it, some are a pain in the ass. various cases: * let me through with just a hand-check of the hard drive/Mac bag. * asked me to power up the hard drive * asked me to power up hard drive and Mac * asked me to power up hard drive, when the hard drive didn't do anything paticularly exciting (I told them it wouldn't...), they told me to x-ray it. I refused. Eventually the chief of that airlines security came down and had me sign a 'Unusual device on concourse' form. * had me sign the form w/o all the other garbage Basically, if you keep your sense of humour about you, the whole experience could turn out to be quite amusing. I have posted a couple of messages summarizing a couple of my experiences. Without a sense of humour, it could be quite infuriating... Remember to take a power cord with the drive. b.bum wb1j+@andrew.cmu.edu