On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 11:33:02AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-06-17T15:14:57Z, Nathan Malmberg <nathan.malmberg@colorado.edu> 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
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