Fri, 06 Mar 2009
Uh oh…. // at 18:00
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It went clack, clack, clack, clack, CLACK. Then it stopped.
Part way through a very ordinary ubuntu package upgrade the hard disk
in fafnir made an horrendous sound and the PC froze. It wouldn't
respond to a soft restart, it wouldn't respond to a hard reset, it
wouldn't even come back up after powering off and on. The hard disk
has had it. A single consumer-grade IDE disk running almost
continually in a desktop machine since about June 2004, what can I
say, it was bound to fail eventually.
Now about those backups and my personal disaster recovery plans….
