On Sat, 22 Jul 2000, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>> Many years ago computr manuals used to tll you 'nothing you can do can
>> harm the machine so experiment and enjoy'. On any modern PC you can erase
>
>good old times. sniff :-')
*grin* Actually, in those days, that was an out-right lie! Spin down the
hard drive and then send it a seek command... most hard drives won't do that
anymore. Or, run a full stroke seek test for an hour... (I've actually seen
a modern seagate IDE drive sling a pickup head off doing that once.)
The point is, you can never protect the hardware from itself. Read another
way, there's no such thing as a "safe" nuclear weapon. A gun without any
bullets isn't very useful now is it?
--Ricky
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