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"Dave Saville" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> |
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[OS2Wireless] Wireless and thunderstorms |
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Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:20:25 +0000 (GMT) |
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On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 11:46:42 +0000 (GMT), Howard Winter wrote:
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>Incidentally, a few years ago a lightning strike hit a tree in the garden next to my sister's house, and it
>destroyed her modem and the Master Boot Record on the disk drive in her computer. The first cylinder of the
>disk was clobbered to the point where the drive couldn't be made bootable again (I tried!) but it worked fine
>as a second drive. The gas discharge tube in a BT socket has a limit to how much protection it provides, and
>in this case it was obviously exceeded. I can understand the modem being wiped out, but the disk drive is
>very strange, given that the rest of the drive, the disk controller, and so on, were all OK.
Some years back we had a very near miss with a strike at work. We got some sort
of surge up the network cables. Even kit that was turned off at the time but
connected to the network got damaged.
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Dave Saville
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