rays and media

Sean picasso@madflower.com
Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:42:52 -0400 (EDT)


They may look at you weird *shrugs* the x-rays can screw up the data, but
remember jiggling the drive can too. I think if you ask them, they will
search it by hand for you. I would really be more worried about the zip
disks then the harddrive.




On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Marcel Kunath wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am planning a trip on a plane and most likely I will be carrying on me as
> hand luggage a bag to contain a hard drive with data on it and zip disks.
>
> Should I remove those from the bag before letting the bag slide through the
> "xray" machine or does this stuff go unharmed?
>
> Are they going to look at me suspiciously if I put a hard drive with my keyset
> into the little handbasket? =)
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  -- Marcel Kunath
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