[rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..

[Shawn Wallbridge]

It wasn't me, but someone dropped our 8way Xeon machine when we took it down
to Siggraph two years ago. All the drives (5x36GB Cheetah's) in it were dead
and the CPU board was cracked. Since it was a demo machine, IBM replaced
everything (actually the tech that came down said he didn't want to know
what happened after he saw the bent corner).

shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Bill Bradford
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 1:51 PM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: [rescue] Accidentally destroying hardware..


On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:40:33PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>   Oh Christ I *HATE* that sound.  One day I was replacing a hard disk
> controller in a Pro350 one of those for a customer, and I happened
> upon a particularly loud one...I thought "Oh SHIT I just destroyed
> this multi-hundred-buck board..."  Most disconcerting.

Poll:

Whats the most expensive piece of equipment you've
accidentally destroyed, and gotten away with it without having
to pay for it?

I think for me it was a pair of 4G Seagate HDs.  Thank god for
warranties. 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX