One of those days.
Tried to bring up my Speakeasy circuit but it failed to work properly. All the blinkenlights worked but no connectivity.
My iBook continued to act wonky but not predictably or reproducibly.
Things that have worked in the past — automounting music libraries, setting up instances of MySQL — have silently and stubbornly failed today.
And then this:
pink:~ root# fsck -y /Volumes/backup/
/Volumes/backup/ is not a character device
CONTINUE? yes
** /Volumes/backup/ (NO WRITE)
CANNOT READ: BLK 16
CONTINUE? yes
THE FOLLOWING DISK SECTORS COULD NOT BE READ: 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31,
ioctl (GCINFO): Inappropriate ioctl for device
fsck: /Volumes/backup/: can't read disk label
Feh. The disk was corrupted (never a good sign when it’s a backup) but that incantation of fsck wasn’t useful.
Perhaps I’ll take it easy tomorrow and see if this, like all things, passes.
[composed and posted with ecto]