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> It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk? Did ever your hard
by bayindirh 3y ago
> It would have probably been faster to put your friends hard disk into your computer for a few minutes and copy directly from disk to disk?
Did ever your hard drive died because you shut down your computer cleanly, discharged static electricity, removed the disk without jolting it, and installed to another computer with the same care?
I lost a couple of drives that way.
- thedougd 3y agoRemember the days before auto park? You would have to tell the drive to safely park the head before you could move it.
- bayindirh 3y agoI was probably too young to remember these days, however probably a couple of my disks didn't have the feature. The disks I lost were 6GiB and 30GiB models, both were autoparking.
- xxs 3y agoThe park thing happened before the GB era of the hard drives
- bayindirh 3y agoI started with a 119MB Samsung, on a computer with a BIOS supporting custom low-level formatting of the drive according to CYL/SEC/HEAD parameters.
- NikkiA 3y agoIt was mostly only ST-506 MFM and RLL drives, almost everything parked automatically by the time IDE drives passed the 100MB size.
- xxs 3y agoIndeed, plus the jumper switches for master/slave mode
- r2_pilot 3y agoI never had enough jumpers at the time(early in my computer explorations), and hoarded them like gold up until around 2007 or 2008 when I finally had plenty from old spare parts.
- scoot 3y agoMeh. We had a PC in the electronics lab circa 1990 that ran perfectly happily with no case on either the PC or the hard-drive - spinning platters exposed.
- bayindirh 3y agoWell, in 90s things went from happy to snappy in an instant randomly. Yours beating Murphy that consistently tells me that it's a very lucky system. Maybe blessed by a Polish Priest? [0] [0]: https://polishpriests.tumblr.com/ https://polishpriests.tumblr.com/