From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 9 08:19:12 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B701D1065679 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 08:19:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jayton.garnett@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f223.google.com (mail-bw0-f223.google.com [209.85.218.223]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 401858FC15 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 2009 08:19:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so436592bwz.43 for ; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:19:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=AYXrouMkixVZsn+opbReBHB7XjSVG60iWYjXPmZKI5c=; b=tuQhokzETZZHRjFRTR+Fm7o67u/UVwgMfTIwEviTUHjhZwhosl9EXJky1yVe2nc93Y 36zlVUXrlAg8NAtoHR5CA/CRR4jcBx+WGN7/hFJbTCGzid1x+bOMeNcU76cqz2oo9oWq cR2oeg+mbb4pn/hkE/ndbdQx4VvA+8jm6aCWE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=G3jp/de5SvwzXF+lPgh4wwmJ1UQeLNlCENVhr/0VA3SajFkbih1MJZ89jZdrASzqc1 GdOPy6a//QLN8bivUp6FtJtp1Ql/+ydLvSeobquFDPlEzOp1xvwxns5oX60bEuLjeHCa jhp64gpPMpBuC+DwyNnfMYpq33MDcrQ3XjigQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.34.23 with SMTP id j23mr1944726bkd.31.1255076351174; Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:19:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ACE9098.3040602@comcast.net> References: <4ACC7CE0.8070801@comcast.net> <4ACE5B3B.2050902@daleco.biz> <4ACE9098.3040602@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 09:19:11 +0100 Message-ID: From: Jayton Garnett To: Allen Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD text based games - Dungeoncrawl - My test box X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:19:12 -0000 Sounds like you probably caused the damage to the disk by powering down while it was trying to write to the disk and if you 'smashed' the power button it's possible you hit the case hard enough to rumble the drive causing physical damage ;) of course it's also possible the EXE was written to change the geom of the drive at chip level. If you're really interested you can reverse engineer it to see exactly what it does ;)