Severe hard disk crash
The topic is sad and so is the news. The harddrive of my laptop failed badly,
it sounds like a childrens toy right now, the BIOS still recognises the
drive, however accessing the drive is impossible. It's also a sad news as this
harddrive isn't manufactured anymore and a replacement drive is far away. I
wrote an article about several CF card to IDE adapters as a solution for this
problem and right now I am on my way to setup my small NetBSD on a fresh
formatted hard drive (read: 8GB CompactFlash card). The cf card is of the 133x
speed class and is somehwat usable after some tweaks to NetBSD. There are
certain problems, however, this is part of this blog - we'll sort them out
over time and I'll write about it.
This is also the reason why p2c doesn't contain pkgsrc-wip in the next days.
I just needed the brand new CompactFlash card from my Soekris - it'll be
back shortly.
