Trilobite

Grrr. My hard drive died last night and my last backup was in December 2004. I could have sworn I had a backup from 6 months ago, but no such luck. I’ve even been meaning to buy a dvd burner for the past week or two and back everything up just in case something like this happened. I would say it’s a bit ironic but it’s not really. It’s more like me being stupid.

So far I’ve been able to figure out that BIOS won’t recognize the drive unless it’s jumpered a slave (cable select doesn’t work), and that the Linux kernel thinks it has a bad superblock. I hope I can somehow recover at least some of my files, but it doesn’t look very promising.

I’m glad I had one of these Knoppix CD’s lying around so I can use my computer until I buy a new hard drive. If anybody has sent me any email in the past 18 months, can you please re-send it 😉