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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!tyger.inna.net!usenet From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: can ccd(4) crash a hard drive? Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 22:41:19 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 18 Message-ID: <321D447F.41C67EA6@FreeBSD.org> References: <4vi8b3$nmt@ocean.silcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) To: David Carmean <dlc@silcom.com> David Carmean wrote: > > Umm...can ccd(4) make a SCSI drive go CLANK!? No. I could see where it might beat them so much harder (though well within spec) that a marginal drive would finally give up the ghost, but I've still yet to see something in software which could damage hardware (OK, there is an exception with certain VGA card and monitor combinations where zeroing two registers can actually smoke the monitor's flyback transformer by sending it a bogus video signal, but that's a rare exception indeed). I'd say your drive simply figured "hoka-hey, today is a good day to die!" :-) -- - Jordan Hubbard President, FreeBSD Project