Dang. Cpu arranged to baby-sit for a co-op member's 7-year-old. That went pretty well, except for the part where he knocked my SEGA Dreamcast onto the top of the Shuttle XPC. Guess where the SexyWesternDigitalRaptor lives? Right on top. It stopped working almost instantly, failing to find a bootable disc.
There
was a pretty big ding on the top of the case, so I cracked it open.
Pushed cables together, reseated the drives. That sort of thing. Booted
it into win32 safe mode, scheduled a disc error check, and it ran
overnight with countless errors. My co-worker says that if you hit a
magnet enough times, it looses its magnetism. Well, I'll say. It failed
to boot.
Ran in safe mode, and it restored most things ok. But there are long delays when using explorer, accessing disc, or using the file menu. Time to backup. Hope the disc burning utility works.
The perforce database reports 12 errors on files I don't use. The documentation for p4d doesn't mention what to do about data errors turned up by
In other scary news, we signed the Deal.
Ran in safe mode, and it restored most things ok. But there are long delays when using explorer, accessing disc, or using the file menu. Time to backup. Hope the disc burning utility works.
The perforce database reports 12 errors on files I don't use. The documentation for p4d doesn't mention what to do about data errors turned up by
p4 verify -q //depot/..., which seems like a pretty big shortcoming.In other scary news, we signed the Deal.
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