Data recovery emergency on a downed server... Help please!!

[James Knott]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, James Knott wrote:
> 
> 
>>And no programmers, who insist on smoking near the computers.  Years
>>ago, I serviced mini computers and there were a couple of programmers
>>who'd be smoking while changing tapes or disk packs, despite being told
> 
> 
> Wow.  Few things are as bad for magnetic media as cigarette smoke.  The
> particles in the smoke bond to the media _really_ well.

Yes, I know.  I'm the guy who had to clean the heads on those drives. 
The cleaning pads would have a yellow tint to them.  We also had 
occasional head crashes in the disk pack drives.  I wonder how many of 
those were caused by the smoke?



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