At 10:12 AM 3/08/2004 +0200, you wrote:

> > disk's physical surface or its heads from damage when people (or Acts of
> > God) do this kind of thing. If the heads were left on the disk surface at
>
>Acts of God?? Did you watch "The Man Who Sued God"?

Ach, I spent a recent weekend repairing a database that got corrupted when
a thunderstorm outage fzappt-ed a chunk of hard disk where a couple of
pages of the company's database pages happened to be. Thunderstorms sans
rain, natch, in a place that's locked in a three-year drought...company
does backups in wet years...the Lord doth work in mysterious ways, his
wonders to perform...

/heLen