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Wow.. I'm glad I bought a packet of soft candy before I came to work. Our department's main Windows server data drive fell over and died. Which is unplesant for all concerned. Especially me the sysadmin who has to fix this crap :P The candy was good at distracting me. The SCSI drive inside was 4GB, 4 years old, and almost totally full. And dead, as of 6PM last night. So I yanked it and stuck in a brand new 7200RPM 40GB IDE drive. Presto. No more space problems, and shiny new drive (It was very shiny actually :). Yay.

The down side is that we have to copy everything back off tapes.. which till take another 3 hours or so. Not too bad I guess. The boss will probably have kittens when he get back from holidays and finds we've used an IDE disk in a server.. but meh. They're cheaper and better these days anyway. Plus it's all backed up anyway, so if it dies, it dies. And it's not likely to do that while I'm still here :D Hehehe.

Also, the RAM and HDD arrived today. The ibook is nice and speedy again with 640MB of RAM in it ;) It was a little slow with only 256 in it. Silly Apple.. tho it is very nice ;) I feel like a crappy pub lunch of fish and chips today.

Booo..

The 80GB disk doesn't work anymore. I opened it up.. and this is what I saw.. I suspect this may be the cause of my problems with it

( eeek! )