On Mon, 17 Nov 1997 14:23:55 -0500,
"T. Sean (Theo) Schulze" <71410.25@compuserve.com> wrote:
> Just a minute ago I was typing in the command to cd to a directory, and 
> before I could complete the command my hard drive made a noise like it 
> was doing a seek.  Then the computer froze.  Nothing I type is shown on 
> the monitor.  C-c does not exit anything.  Several returns and then 
> 'shutdown -r now' typed in the blind doesn't work either.

Sounds like a drive hardware problem...  Probably you'll have to turn
it off and on again to get it spinning again.  However, it may not
spin up again, if the shutdown was due to some hardware problem.

Oh, this message comes with absolutely NO WARRANTY.

Ken