On Feb 25, 2004, at 10:57 AM, Levi Bard wrote:
>> I had to miss the talk anyway. One of the drives in one of my servers
>> at home caught fire or leprosy or something. Fortunately I had a
>> backup, but when I got home it sounded like a raquetball game was
>> going
>> on inside the drive. Horrible carnage everywhere. Man I hate
>> computers...
>
> Is there a colony of leprous hard disks somewhere to which it can be
> relegated, or do you have to thoroughly incinerate it?
Mostly what I do when a drive is deemed unsavable is open it up, then
plug it into a spare mothoerboard and see if I can get it to do
anything while poking at various bits of it with non-conductive poking
things. (Jacob's Ladders, mad laughter and cries of "It's Alive!"
purely optional...) If that doesn't work, or when I get bored with
poking, they generally get piled up in my already overcrowded room,
usually in a way that they'll fall over onto my foot when I flip the
light switch on in the middle of the night, causing many expletive
exclamations.
So when a previously good drive dies, I'm sure it's purely spite.
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