A BDU's is born every minute ...

[Pete Turnbull]

On Oct 18 2005,  8:29, John Foust wrote:
> At 01:39 PM 10/17/2005, Bob Bradlee wrote:

> >With the aid of a paperclip and a prybar, I opened up the drive to
fine a
> >shattered CD inside.

> But I've seen this happen *twice* to a client who wasn't
> dunking them in LOX.  CDs are spinning quite quickly.

I've never actually seen it happen, but a couple of years ago one of
the manufacturers who supplies the University issued a warning about
fast drives, and IIRC some were recalled.  The explanation was that the
faster "52x" drives run at a speed which is very close to that at which
centrifugal force can make a polycarbonate disk break up, so a defect
in the disk can have a profound effect.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York