On Thu, 8 Apr 2010 14:03:39 -0700 (PDT), whit3rd
put finger to keyboard and composed:

On Apr 8, 12:11*am, Franc Zabkar wrote:

Is this the fallout from RoHS?

Maybe not. There are other known culprits, like the drywall (gypsum
board,
sheetrock... whatever it's called in your region) that outgasses
hydrogen
sulphide. Some US construction of a few years ago is so bad with
this
toxic and corrosive gas emission that demolition of nearly-new
construction
is called for.

Corrosion of nearby copper is one of the symptoms of the nasty
product.

It's not just Russia that has this problem. The same issue comes up
frequently at the HDD Guru forums.

- Franc Zabkar
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