…with hard drives.
The event logs of a dying iPod.
A few years ago I bought a Seagate 160GB hard drive, anticipating my imminent requirement for more disk space. Eventually, the time rolled by where I actually needed that space, and that’s when the abovementioned hard drive crashed spectacularly. It has since been replaced with a new unit which has (touch wood) been working smoother than yo’ momma’s thighs.
Fast-forward to a few weeks ago, where visions of impending doom filled my head when, once again, I had hard drive issues. Luckily (if you can say that) it was only (hah!) one of two things: my primary IDE channel had given up the ghost, or the cable connected to the primary IDE channel was busted. I haven’t tested either one of these hypotheses yet: my hard drives are working on the secondary IDE channel and that’s all I need to know.
But now, the latest victim in this sordid string of sick storage devices is my 3-month old 120GB iPod Classic. I’ve checked the drive’s SMART data in the iPod diagnostics menu, and the reallocated sector count is firmly within the range of 2500-3000, with more sectors pending reallocation. Never mind the fact that some tracks are irrevocably broken, pausing halfway through the song before skipping to the next file. The window pictured above is the Event Viewer on my computer after attempting to playback (i.e. read from the iPod itself) one of the affected tracks using foobar2000 (which, it so happens, gave up with an I/O error after quite some time).
So this weekend it’s off to warranty claims with my iPod, and with it goes just about any musical entertainment at work for the next week or two. Barring a daily selection of media to copy to my flash drive, of course. 512MB has never been so piteously small a capacity…
Also, Albert will now be chortling with self-righteous glee as karma destroys my iPod, after I (naturally) poked fun at him when his iPod Touch’ home button went on indefinite strike. That’ll teach me to laugh at other’s misfortune (even if they are part of the Turtleneck Cult and thus actually deserve it).
(Damn it, there goes my replacement iPod too.)
Tags: ipod
Yes. I am indeed chortling. Just be glad that you don’t have to deal with that pathetic woman from that pathetic online shop that also happens to deal in generators… (http://www.apple.co.za/stopgrey/notauthorised.html <- I lol’d)