Something Tells Me That This Is Not a Good Thing

This

Aug 16 00:13:19 glossolalia kernel: disk2: 0x9 (UNDEFINED).
Aug 16 00:13:50 glossolalia last message repeated 2374 times
Aug 16 00:15:51 glossolalia last message repeated 7467 times
Aug 16 00:17:33 glossolalia last message repeated 6024 times
Aug 16 00:17:34 glossolalia kernel: 2: 0x9 (UNDEFINED).
Aug 16 00:17:34 glossolalia kernel: disk2: 0x9 (UNDEFINED).
Aug 16 00:17:35 glossolalia last message repeated 230 times
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Aug 16 01:07:34 glossolalia kernel: hfs: WARNING - blocks on volume XtraBrain not allocated!

culminating with this

!/sprocket/images/38.jpg (Oh, crap)!

is not what you want to see when the disk in question is your 160 GB removable (Firewire/USB2.0) drive that houses (in order of importance):

  • Movie footage of Isabella which, thankfully, was also on the laptop’s internal hard drive
  • Your music collection (at least CDs A-P), which will now need to be re-ripped
  • The entire first season of Lost
  • Some old backups of your internal hard drive

All attempts to repair said disk (via Disk Utility) have failed. The only thing to do is to initialize the disk and hope it’s not dead, too.

The irony in all of this is that I was on the cusp of buying one of these so I could network the disk drive. The drive would, at that time, need to be reformatted anyways (from HFS+ to Ext3) in order to work with the NSLU2.

Grr. Argh.

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