"Pain, Captain."

[elfs]

Last night, Omaha and I got home after a long flight and went to bed. This morning I woke up only to discover that something had gone horribly wrong with my desktop computer. There's a 5 month old Maxtor 120GB drive on there with all of my MP3s and so on, and no backups, and both of the drives on the IDE0 channel are refusing to respond to requests from the motherboard. The IDE0 channel has given me headaches in the past; this is the second drive in as many months to go south on IDE0/A, so I suspect it might be something with the motherboard. It's a six-year-old computer, and it's done many a good thing, but if it can't be relied upon, well... *sigh*

Unfortunately, this leaves me only with the laptop, which is still solid as a rock and very reliable after all these months. I'm so happy with it I just wish it had a hard drive worthy of its power-- it's a little 6GB thingy.

I'm pricing through the catalogs right now, looking for something to replace the old Linux box...

Elf