On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:33:02AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: > At 2003-06-17T15:14:57Z, Nathan Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You're a college student and haven't discovered the lure of selling plasma? > For shame, for shame. > > > So I've heard. It appears that my drive was on its last legs. It's not > > dead, more like undead, killing every disk it touches. > > Yep. Even worse: the undeath is probably viral. Those disks may very well > taint any drive they touch, which will likely infect any disks that are put > in it... > > No, I'm not kidding.
You may not be kidding, but I hope you're wrong. I've reformatted all the disks in another zip drive (borrowed, no plasma). They appear to be working so far. If I ever get my own lab, though, I'll see that reliance on zip disks is minimized. -- "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live." John 11:25 Nathan J. Malmberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GNUPG ID: 8A9B426E The attachment is a digital signature. Get my key at wwwkeys.pgp.net.
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