>And I'm a person that gets shocked every time I touch something that is >grounded, so clearly I must build up static in my body easily. And I've >never ever damaged anything from static.
Note that damaged components can take weeks, or months to appear. (especialy on disk drives, where damaged cmoss chips may work fine for a long time, then simply show up in higher frequency failure rates.) I have seen both this in repair shops and disk drive assembly shops. The static never shows on the surface, but one bad/lazy worker can have 10 times the 1 year failure rates when tracked. ;-) Also, modern components are somewhat less susceptible to static than 80's components. But I always ground, as static can easily damage RAM, disk drives, and other components. Especially in dry climates and winter climates. Joe Theisman: "The word 'genius' isn't applicable to the game of football. A genius is someone like Norman Einstein." (good work Joe!) Mark James SoftRAID, LLC mjames@ softraid.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
