Re: disk-destroyer.c

From: Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Date: Mon Jul 24 2000 - 07:09:02 EST


On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, James Sutherland wrote:

> Even MS protects their customers from this sort of damage. Failure to do
> so is fscking stupid, dangerous, and likely to end up with dead penguins
> lining the road. It's even possible that just running Linux on an IDE HDD
> will void your warranty ATM - do you REALLY want that??

        This is out-right false. MSDOS/Win95/Win98 have no such
protections. There *may* be protections under NT/Win2k, though I would be
suprised, and no doubt there are simple ways around them.

                Stephen

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