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From: dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae)
Subject: HD crashes
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.171611.29628@engin.umich.edu>
Summary: Not on my slab
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Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 17:16:11 GMT

In article <1991Mar25.073710.23398@engin.umich.edu> dejnsen@caen.engin.umich.edu (Nik Anthony Gervae) writes:

>  While I'm posting, has anyone heard anything about release 2.0 being
>made available on CD-ROM? That would conceivably make my backup options
>a lot less expensive. Especially if you could boot from it--it'd be slow as
>hell, but then the only reason I'd do it would be to rebuild a crashed HD;
>I've had crashes happen in the past and lost 1/3 of my files...I really don't
>want a repeat but can't afford any of the more expensive options, and from 
>what I hear 2.0 on floppies isn't available (and would be even more of a
>hassle than BuildDisk from CD-ROM!).
>

  That was me. I just got a message from someone asking me how many times
the HD in my NeXT has crashed, they're worried about performance and
stability and all that.
  Oops. I didn't mean my NeXT HD had crashed--I was speaking in general.
(Actually, it was a 2-yr old Rodime in a Mac II that I'd abused in various
ways--altering System file without saving, etc etc). So "don't panic." I'm
just being paranoid after a very nasty accident that happened once.

  And make that 2.1 in the above request. I want the latest.

  Cheers,
  Nik

PS: Rodime made a good drive in that 140M internal. That was no slam.
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