[CS-FSLUG] A moment of silence of the fallen

[Nigel Ridley]

Ed Hurst wrote:
> O, how the mighty have fallen!
> 
> Okay, maybe not so mighty. My poor laptop harddrive died this morning.
> I thought I had scanned it well and marked all the bad sectors. I was
> downloading some new apps, and when it began writing it froze the whole
> system. Upon reboot, I got a massive pile of read errors. According to
> FreeBSD diagnostics, that's a dying harddrive.
> 
> Thankfully, my desktop is still working (for now). It's the story of my
> life. I laugh, shake my head and move on.
> 
> Ed Hurst
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> 
  The first sign that a hard drive is on the way out is when you have to 
manually mark bad sectors. The firmware usually does that in the 
background without you knowing about it; that is until you have to do it 
manually, as the space allotted to the firmware *repairing* the hard 
drive is used up.

If you ever have to do it manually again -- back up your data and get a 
replacement ASP.

Blessings,

Nigel

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