[Klug-general] You know its a bad day when...

Karl Lattimer karl at qdh.org.uk
Wed Dec 20 09:38:13 GMT 2006


On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 09:31 +0000, Dan Attwood wrote:
> To elaborate of this tip I foound the best way to do it was the following
> 
> - wrap the disk in an antistatic bag
> -leave it for an hour
> - remove it carfully form the bag (beware of condensation)
> -Get a second clean anti staic bag and a pack of froozen sausages
> - wrap the sauages in the new bag
> - balance the drive on the pack of sausages
> The sausages will keep the drive colder for longer and let you get
> more data of at a time.
> Last time I did this though I found that I could only get about 20
> mins of life out of the drive before it died and I had to refreeze it.

This fits pretty much with my experiences last night. Good to have a
plan laid out FFR.

Cheers,
K,





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