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Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 11:17
PM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: disc drives at
altitude?
Yes I did try it again. This time it didn't even make it to
altitude. The first time was a more leisurely climb rate with 2 on board
(maybe ~1000'/min) and it crashed (blue screen) at 10'300. we descended to
below 10K and rebooted then slowly climbed again and at exactly 10,300' it
crashed again. Reboot and again at exactly 10,300', blue screen again, but
then it wouldn't reboot.
Thanks for the info. It sounds like this is a very
real problem, and even if you get a drive that seems to work, one
good bit of turbulence will likely knock it out. I'd hate to think
my GPS was on the verge of failure all the time, so I guess I'll forget
any system that has a HD in it.
Cheers,
Rusty (fortunately, memory is
cheap)
I toasted two laptops while flying for the military (In a C-23
and a King-Air). Above 10 thousand feet, the hard drives failed.
We need something that has electronic storage (chip or card) rather than hard
drives. My Appollo Precedus handheld GPS was and still is great at any
altitude. Paul Conner