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In article <35...@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> wilkins@jarthur.UUCP (Mark Wilkins) writes:
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>>I'm sure that there is a plethora of walking disk drive stories out there...
>>here's Yet Another Disk Drive Goes For A Walk...
>

Yep.  Believe you me, I was a little fearful when about a week into my third
shift operator's job three summers ago, this very thing happened.  

I was alone on my shift after the first couple of days of orientation etc.
One night doing backups, I thought I heard this odd sort of noise.  I was
trying to find it, and noticed it got real loud when I opened the computer
room door.  Yes, we were using some old 288Mb Removable drives, and one of
them was bouncing around like a washing machine.  This was my first
experience working on any kind of multi-user system (or with such outdated
technology:-)) so I was just a tad bit freaked.  I hurriedly stopped the
backup and hacked a procedure that would skip that drive leaving it for the
morning people to deal with...  I later found out that just turning it off
and restarting it would cure the problem.  (You'd think I would have known
enough to try that after all my PC experience, but I was just a little too
freaked to want to have any risk of further damaging a $15000 piece of
equipment my fist week on the job.)

							--mike