From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Nov 16 22:29:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 475BF14ECE for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:29:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id WAA22027; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:29:09 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id WAA17432; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 22:29:08 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA19995; Tue, 16 Nov 99 22:29:05 PST Message-Id: <38324B30.F0BF613D@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 23:29:04 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Jay Nelson Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Nick Hibma Subject: Re: Support for USB floppies like Y-E Data FlashBuster-u ? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jay Nelson wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Wes Peters wrote: > > >Sheldon Hearn wrote: > >> > >> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 15:56:21 +0100, Nick Hibma wrote: > >> > >> > If you ask the 3 IDE disks and ethernet hub that have gone pop this > >> > weekend, they would say no, but myself I was pretty firm that I was > >> > going to do something about it this weekend. Bastard things, they should > >> > be shot and they will be. > >> > >> Be careful about shooting hard drives. Specifically, get your angle > >> right such that you _do_ actually fracture the casing. The alternatives > >> are all unfortunate and mostly painful. > >> > >> We wouldn't want you hurting yourself, no matter how funny the story > >> might be. :-) > > > >Most hard drives are made of aluminum, aren't they? Aluminum doesn't > >deflect bullets, at least not the kind I shoot. ;^) > > Wad cutters or .22s might be a problem;) Neither of them seem to fit in my .308 rifle. Even the spindle that Phil Regnauld mentioned isn't going to do much of anything to a 180-grain full metal jacket bullet travelling at 2,400 fps; these rounds go straight through hardened steel padlocks. You should see what they do to 14" Fujitsu Eagle drives. Or old VT100s. Or jackrabbits. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message