Thursday, April 21, 2005, 3:20:44 AM, Herb wrote:
HC> you haven't had any external power problems recently, have you? separate
HC> computers dying like that could be a coincidence, but it might not be. last
HC> machine death i had was the IDE controller on the motherboard, probably
HC> because of a power glitch that got through the surge protectors and the
HC> power supply. took all of the IDE drives on the computer with it. luckily,
HC> all my CD drives are SCSI and i had take full backups just two days before.
HC> the only thing i lost were some email messages. i ended up replacing the
HC> entire machine except for the SCSI and Firewire controllers and the CD
HC> drives.
My sympathies to P.J.
The "power glitch" raises a question (did I use that right <g>?) about
external drives - connected via USB/FW and their own power supply -
would they be affected as well?
Good light!
fra
