Disk death

[jennyaxe]

Recently I've noticed that Firefox has been crashing a lot on the iMac. I shrugged it off as some sort of problem with Firefox as such and went back to Safari.

Today the computer started being very slow. I disconnected peripheral after peripheral and ended up replacing my own keyboard and mouse with the ones Apple shipped with the computer. And after the umpteenth reboot the computer decided to not come back up at all - it kept saying "disc0s3 I/O error".

So, dead hard disk.

Still, it's something that's fairly easy to replace. And I do have backups of everything important. I'd just gone over to using del.icio.us for my bookmarks, and everything else is subversioned on another computer and checked out in at least two more places. And I've still got my FreeBSD box which has been running as a firewall/NAT machine for everything else on the home network - it's completely useable, I just need to go back to using the old CRT monitor.

Could be a lot worse.

Comments

[rodluvan.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Not fun with a hard drive crash. Maybe the bad hard drive was the reason that Firefox not was working? You are lucky that you can so muck about computers. But it's always a lot of work to reinstall on a new drive.

Very well done that you have backup at your important things. I take backup of my new files every day before I close my computer. I have an external drive. I also burn CD for all my files.

It could be worse

[cederqvist.livejournal.com]

I thought about this posting when I stumbled upon this diesel sweeties strip. At least you have a better backup system while you get the disk replaced. :-)

Re: It could be worse

[jennyaxe.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's a hilarious strip!