Re: [tlug] Potentially Dying Hard Disk Questions [2](Dropping HD's...)

[Edward Wright <edw@example.com>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 12:12:32PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> >>>>> "Edward" == Edward Wright <edw@example.com> writes:
>     Edward> On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 03:24:48PM +0900, Stephen
>     Edward> J. Turnbull wrote:
> 
>     >> >>>>> "Lyle" == Lyle Saxon <Lyle> writes:
> 
>     Lyle> 150 G's??  Sounds like an airplane or something.....  Is a
>     Lyle> two foot drop to a linoleum floor more than 150 G's??
> 
>     >> The two-foot drop is free fall, ie, zero G's.
> 
>     Edward> Uhhhh.... actually, 1 G - a "G" being the rate of
>     Edward> acceleration of a body at sea level acted upon by the
>     Edward> earth's gravity - 9.8m/s/s more or less
> 
>     Edward> :-)
> 
> RTFM.
BTDT - carried A's in physics at UC, Berkeley...... until I dropped
out 4th quarter :)

Since my original post was intended as a light-hearted quibble, and
I don't want to descend into heavy-handed quibbles about definitions,
terminlogy and usage, I hereby withdraw my post. With only the
following comment: 
<quibble> we're actually talking about "g" as opposed to "G" (the 
universal gravitational constant) - although every hard disk spec 
I've read refers to "G".
</quibble>