[ale] ASUS P5MT question

[Jim Popovitch]

> I'd love to have someone tell me I'm wrong, but, I don't think that a 
> hard reboot is capable of damaging your hard drive.
> 
> Anyone?  Seriously, I don't really know, but can't imagine how a 
> hardware problem such as physical damage to the drive is possible in 
> such a scenario.

I think in very old drives (with fewer capacitors) it was possible to 
drop power and have the still moving heads mess up writes, but I don't 
think it would cause bad blocks or other hardware level destruction.

-Jim P.