> > [...] I bumped the power cable on my hard disk and
> > jolted it enough that it disconnected. OH SHIT! The computer
> > seemed to be ok still... I pressed some keys... no problem... I
> > was freaking! I carefully grabbed the power cable and put it
> > back on WHILE THE COMPUTER REMAINED ON!!
>
> I blew up a 130M Seagate, back when they were hundreds of dollars by
> accidentally jarring the hard disk cable. You're very lucky.
>
> Hard disks are still hundreds of dollars, so when you do happen to mention
> this story, you might want to say you had precious data that wasn't quite
> flushed from cache, and you had no choice but to _intentionally_ re-insert
> the power cable ;)
Heheheh. I never thought of the cache not being flushed... I am
still mind boggled by this! I think I might throw my
running computer in a bathtub full of water next, while running
2000 copies of crashme in parallel. All on web cam of course.
;o)
That would be a good webpage for sure!
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