HDDs (was Re: PowerUser external SCSI HD

Don Maslin wrote: Oh, yes. The Kalok Octagon. I hated those things. I lost access to a school computer lab for an entire term due to the untimely failure of one of these things fitted in an Acorn Archimedes A310. Here's the story: I was peacefully sitting at the A310 during my lunch break, headphones plugged in, playing Lemmings. Then it happened. The sound stopped. The machine went glacial (highly unusual for an Acorn). I took off my headphones and I heard this almighty SCREEEEEEECH, followed by "clunk-CLAK... clunk-CLAAAAAK... clunk-whirr....". IT tech came through, asked for the story. Her response? "These drives don't fail for nothing. You must have hit the machine or something". The drive was duly pulled out and replaced. It was only 8mnths old. Later that week I was told that I was not to touch any computer in the school, period. That lasted for the rest of the term. I left at the end of the term anyway. I almost went mad without my daily Lemmings fix :-( If there's one person/team I want to attack with a LART, it's the one who designed the Kalok Octagon... Later. -- Phil. philpem(a)dsl.pipex.com http://www.philpem.dsl.pipex.com/ PGP Key ID: 0x0E18C95F PGP Key Fingerprint: 2741 5CB7 1D45 6F77 D1FC FA3D 7A87 2DA4 0E18 C95F