There’s only one thing I hate more than software and OS reinstallation and that is vacuuming, but I had to do it for Ruby. My eyes are blurry from being up half the night backing up her data, erasing her drive, reinstalling Jaguar, and then reinstalling all my software. What a pain! Ahh.. I could now relate to all the mothers of the world, as I muttered, “Ruby, the things I do for you, the things I do for you!” Hopefully this disease that’s been plaguing her for the past month is gone. Thanks, Mark, for letting me borrow your portable drive.
Mark // May 9, 2003 at 11:30 am
Well, Ruby was my HD’s last blast.
The power supply/bus is now officially smoked. The HD has been completely eviscerated from it’s case and will hopefully begin a monk’s life as an internal drive.
rachelle // May 9, 2003 at 1:05 pm
Looks like Ruby was too much for your hard drive to handle. I hope she didn’t pass her disease on to it!
Chris Guth // May 9, 2003 at 6:26 pm
Yeah, gotta love it when you’re having problems. As long as you have backups though it’s not the end of the world.
Revel in the fortune that HD’s are dirt cheap right now. I just picked up a couple 120GB Hitachi/IBM HD’s on sale with a 8MB cache for only $105 each and made a screaming 240GB Level 0 Striping RAID out of it for video work with a SiiG RAID card I picked up. My Mac’s absolutely screamin’… I’m going DVD makin’ bonkers now… Good luck, let me know if you need any help searching for a cheap replacement drive though Mark should have that covered.
rachelleb.com // Aug 17, 2005 at 6:46 am
Goodbye Ruby
Ruby & Rachelle In October 2000, Mark and I went to Comp USA in Kearny Mesa and I adopted Ruby. Since then she’s been with me through thick and thin, from California to New York and finally making her…