Re: SRC 2643 0001

        * Jerry C. Adams
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Rich Duzenbury wrote:

On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 08:56 -0500, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

That dropping sounds reasonable. I've not experienced it, but it sounds like "stiction". Search for that.

Hmm.  I pulled the drive and held it in my hand during the last IPL
attempt.  I felt it spin up, and I felt the disk arms move on at least a
couple of occasions (internal self test?).  I wonder if the interface
hardware on the drive has given up.

I've located a source for drives - $100 each.

Cheap, but, the last workload on the machine was supporting a customer
that didn't have LAN's and VPN's until recently, and as of today, I'm
connected to their shiny new VPN.

Fare thee well D04.  I know JHHL's D02 recently died, and now my old
friend has passed on to the ether as well.  Not bad to get thirteen,
almost fourteen, years out of it.

Now, what can I reuse the case for?

If I outfit it with wheels and drawers, it would make a pretty cool tool
box.  A friend suggested converting it into a set of bird houses.
Another suggested a mail box, but I think it would look funny.  It's
almost right as a bench.  I could toss it off the end of my dock and use
it for 'artificial reef'.

Your suggestions welcome!

Thank you.

Regards,
Rich