From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 29 5:16: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ruby.he.net (ruby.he.net [216.218.187.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52F7837B423 for ; Tue, 29 May 2001 05:16:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@wiliweld.com) Received: from corten8.billschoolcraft.com (adsl-63-193-247-201.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.247.201]) by ruby.he.net (8.8.6/8.8.2) with ESMTP id FAA25458; Tue, 29 May 2001 05:16:02 -0700 Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 05:16:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Schoolcraft X-Sender: bill@corten8.billschoolcraft.com To: Burton Windle Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: replace harddrive ? Toshiba 1715-XCDS ?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: System-ID: [en] (I; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i86pc) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At Tue, 29 May 2001 it looks like Burton Windle composed: BW-->You realized that there is a 99% chance that opening the case of your hard BW-->drive will completly ruin the drive, right? The heads are *so* close to BW-->that platters that dust, etc can totally screw them up. Unless you are a BW-->trained person, in a clean-room/ESD-free area, I bet you toast the drive. BW--> BW-->-- BW-->Burton Windle burton@fint.org BW-->Linux: the "grim reaper of innocent orphaned children." BW--> from /usr/src/linux-2.4.0/init/main.c:655 BW--> ....... jeez, I would think that the same precautions I use in changing other drives in other laptops would scale to this scenerio. Is there something different with newer Toshiba's than the older Toshiba's ? The replacement drive I have is an industry standard IBM. ? Thanks for your email for I've yet to attempt this. There is an online site that walks you through this at http://www.bixnet.com/toshiba2.html I tried to call Toshiba yesterday for some iformation but the "Storage Device Division" was closed for the holiday. -- Bill Schoolcraft PO Box 210076 -o) San Francisco CA 94121 /\ "UNIX, A Way Of Life." _\_v http://forwardslashunix.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message