[NBLUG/talk] hard drive death, filesystem types

[Andrew]

Lincoln Peters wrote on Fri, 17 Dec 2004 10:17:40 -0800:

> However, I recall that a few years
> ago, someone posted to this very list a message about a bug in
> the Pentium registers of Athlon processors that could cause the
> system to crash randomly (under *any* OS), and my Athlon system
> (which had run quite reliably until then) crashed within just a
> few minutes of the posting, before I even had a chance to check
> my e-mail!

Hey, I said I was sorry!  :-D

Ah, well, I've got an Athlon which has run solidly forever
(current uptime: 135 days). Maybe now with your post, *you'll*
get *me*! I'd better save any open files right now...

I never did hear if they fixed that bug or not.

A.