Well, it would seem the problem was a dying HDD! My SECOND Western Digital HDD has just died. I only bought it about 14 months ago. I had another which died 14 months ago (replaced under warranty - it was a couple of months short of three years old).
My machine is on 24/7, I do a fair bit of video editing and compositing (nothing that runs for days though) and I've had two power failures in the last 12 months. I find it a bit hard to imagine that this would cause a drive to fail at such a young age, no? It cost me $17 postage to get the other replaced by WD, so off this one goes to HK as well. Bugger. Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
