Bad Hard Drive

[Peter Hiscocks]

The hard drive on my wife's Windows machine recently blew up (literally).
There is now an integrated circuit on the controller board with a small
crater and evidence of flame damage in one corner.

When I got the machine repaired at OTA, the service tech said something
about this type of drive being prone to such behaviour and that they had
replaced a number of them, so you if you have one you might want to be
proactive about replacing it. This is what it says on the cover:

Quantum Fireball lct N143, 10 3.5".
10.2AT P/N LB10A011 Rev 01-A.

Dunno the size, probably 10.2 gigs I would guess from the part number.

Peter
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Peter D. Hiscocks                         	   
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