Posts by Monkey&Typewriter

Agreed. My policy is "Advise. Warn. Ignore."

1) Advise them that their action will likely produce results contrary to their goals.

2) Warn them of the likely consequences of said actions.

3) Ignore the screams and pleading.

Further, I am advising you that this policy may not result in favorable employment outcomes...

Re: But how about those batteries?

EVs and hybrids aren't necessarily more dangerous in fire and breakdown emergencies. They're just dangerous in different ways than ICE vehicles. They require different methods to deal with them safely. Emergency personnel have been trained in dealing with ICE fires and breakdowns for almost 100 years. As pointed out earlier dowsing them with water is ineffective and likely to cause new hazards... electricity and water, you know. Different equipment will be required as well as training on that equipment.

Emergency personnel will learn to deal with high density batteries, but it will take time and money to train them.

I'd be interested to know how many cities are budgeting for that training and equipment.

Re: SCSI

Wow that brings back unpleasant memories. Many moons ago I ran MS Exchange on some early NT4 Beowulf clusters like that: server<-->SCSIcable<-->driveArray<-->SCSIcable<-->server with the SCSI adapters providing termination at either end. Both nodes had read-write to the common array with a single lock file as the quorum resource to prevent resource conflicts.

It ran, but reliability was horrid. I eventually just disconnected one of the cluster nodes and ran on the remaining standalone node... with proper termination of course.

Re: Erasing hard-drives...

You CAN degauss a hard drive without cooking it, but it takes an extremely intense field. Not one you would encounter accidentally.

There are devices for doing it. Here's an example: https://www.protondata.com/product-category/hard-drive-degaussers/ This is not an endorsement of Proton's products, just the result of a quick search. I haven't needed to destroy HDDs to that level in a decade or so. Note that once degaussed, the HDD is no longer usable. The platters inside are pretty though.