Find myself sitting here...

[teyrnon]

I find myself sitting here waiting for files to copy and this backup to finish. This morning I discovered that my file server is flaking out. It seems to be the hard drive. It's over 4 years old so a failure isn't entirely surprising.The file server itself is a Linksys NSLU2. It's been sitting quietly on a desk with its hard disk all these years. Once I've got all the files copied to an external drive my brother was kind enough to help me get today I'm going to shut the NSLU2 down and bring its hard disk over to my main system and see if I can get more information about what's happening than the rather unhelpful "scandisk failed" message it returned when I used its own disk scan option.

In other news I've changed my userpic again. It's a fairly old picture as evidenced by the hat I'm wearing. It's not the fedora I wore in the 90s nor is it a baseball cap as I've worn this last decade. I only dimly remember the hat in this picture. It seems to have a white puggaree. I don't think I have it anymore. If anyone can identify what kind of hat it is, let me know.

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[cybermystic.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've seen those drive docks and universal drive adapters. They're nice. Don't need one at the moment but may get one later on.

Anyrate, the NSLU2 itself is fine. The hard disk though has seen better days. To clarify the disk is already in a USB drive enclosure, all I had to do was unplug it from the NSLU2's usb port and unplug and untangle the power cord for the enclosure. Then it was a simple matter of carrying the drive to a linux box and running fsck on it.